Liszt: Complete Piano Music 39 – Années de pèlerinage I
5/10/2024, 12 Tracks, 1:15:59
Featuring
Leslie Howard
Franz Liszt
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Compositional Technique
Liszt often introduced his pieces with lines from poets like Byron and Schiller, or excerpts from novels, to set the mood or provide context.
Composition History
Most of the music on this album derives from Liszt's earlier, two-hour-long collection, Album d'un voyageur, which he later tried to suppress.
Composition History
Liszt's Années de pèlerinage (Years of Travel) are careful reworkings of music he originally composed as a traveling concert artist.
Compositional Technique
The Trois Morceaux suisses (Three Swiss Pieces) are based on Swiss art songs by Ferdinand Huber (1791-1863) and Ernest Knop (d 1850).
Composer Biography
Liszt's Années de pèlerinage-Première année-Suisse (Years of Travel-First Year-Switzerland) is considered one of the most important productions from his Weimar years, marking his coming of age as an international composer.
Cultural Impact
Tchaikovsky admired Liszt's Vallée d'Obermann so much that he appropriated its main theme for Lensky's aria in his opera Yevgeny Onegin.
Instruments
A 'ranz' is a generic term for melodies improvised by Swiss herdsmen, played on the alpenhorn or sung, whether for cows or goats.
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