IDAGIO | Liszt: Complete Piano Music 12 – Années de pèlerinage III 00602465385830

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Leslie Howard
Franz Liszt

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Composition History

The Historical Hungarian Portraits are musical epitaphs and characterizations of seven famous 19th-century Hungarian statesmen and artists, with no folk materials except a theme from the Hungarian national hymn, Szózat es Hymnus.

Critical Reception

The uncompromising nature of much of Liszt's late music led to its immediate neglect and, in many cases, its lack of publication until well into the 20th century.

Compositional Technique

Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, an impressionistic masterpiece from Années de pèlerinage, was years ahead of its time and influenced composers like Debussy and Ravel.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Liszt's late piano works are unique in 19th-century music literature due to their thinning style, deliberate barrenness, avant-garde pioneering, and solitary reflection.

Composition History

Liszt's only contribution to left-hand-alone piano literature is the left-hand version of Hungary's God, arranged for his friend Count Géza Zichy, a formidable pianist despite losing his right arm.

Composition History

The third volume of Années de pèlerinage, unlike its passionate predecessors, was written during Liszt's later years as the product of a fundamentally solitary person.

Composition History

Liszt arranged five 'real' Hungarian folksongs, even including the original Hungarian texts, as an apparent act of atonement after criticism for not differentiating between gypsy café music and true Hungarian folksong in earlier works.