liszt from class

Question 1

original works by liszt

Answer 1

• Original
• years of pilgrimage
  1. swiss, 2. italy (venice and napoli), 3 late liszt,
• pieces include, bells of geneva, petrarch sonnets, fountains at villa d’este
• Transcendental etudes, 3 versions, we play no. 3
  1. Juvenelia
  2. difficult, too difficult
  3. fewer notes.

-Mephisto waltzes (4)
-concert etudes (set of 3)(set of 2)(set of 2)
somewhat mendelssohnian, maybe
-2 ballades,
-consolations (6)
- polonaise (2) g minor is famous
-armonies poetique and religious (2-3 hours)
-3 love dreams, (liebestraum)
-B minor sonata

Question 2

Transcriptions

Answer 2

• Transcriptions
• -hungarian rhapsodies (19 total)
• -paganini etudes (6) based on caprices
• -opera transcriptions, don juan (mozart) norma (bellini)
• -Robert Le Diable, by meyerbeer,
• -Rienze, (wagner)
• The hungarian rhapsodies are really more gypsy or romani rhapsodies.
• opera transcript is a very large genre.
• liszt invented the tone poem.
• song transcriptions
• -schubert song cycles
• -beethoven song cycles
• -beethoven arias
• -schumann
• -chopin
• Spanish rhapsody
• Late pieces are almost atonal,
• nuages gris
• brahms said that the opera paraphrases are the height of technique

Question 3

sonata

Answer 3

• –modal scales
• –heroic theme
• –devils theme
• -heroic theme is made from a catholic tune

Question 4

basic info why liszt is important

Answer 4

• liszt criticised a lot,
• original, daring composer
• invented many pianistic devices, killed tonality
• transcription is a creative process.
• lots of ossia or ad lib passages.
• more than 1300 pieces by liszt.
• inventor of public piano recital.

Question 5

years of pilgrimage

Answer 5

• Original
• years of pilgrimage
  1. swiss, 2. italy (venice and napoli), 3 late liszt,
• pieces include, bells of geneva, petrarch sonnets, fountains at villa d’este

Question 6

transcendental etudes

Answer 6

• Transcendental etudes, 3 versions, we play no. 3
  1. Juvenelia
  2. difficult, too difficult
  3. fewer notes.

Question 7

mephisto waltzes

Answer 7

4

Question 8

concert etudes

Answer 8

set of 3, set of 2, set of 2, somewhat mendelssohnian

Question 9

ballades

Answer 9

2

Question 10

consolations

Answer 10

6

Question 11

polonaise

Answer 11

2, g minor is famous one

Question 12

armonies poetique and religious

Answer 12

2-3 hours long,

Question 13

love dreams (liebestraum)

Answer 13

set of 3 pieces.

Question 14

Gyy

Answer 14

Ghh