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Franz Liszt: Transcending the Virtuosic

 

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Letter to the Abbé Lamennais, June 30, 1834

Franz Liszt
Lithograph by Charles
Etienne Pierre Motte
ca. 1827

Réminiscences de Norma:
Grande Fantaisie
(Mainz: Schott, [1844])

 
 
letter to schumannletter to schumann letter to unnamed friend
letter to unnamed friend

Letter to Robert Schumann
June 5, 1839

Letter to an unnamed friend
October 6, 1846
 
liszt portrait mid age piano sonata b minor preludes liszt  

Franz Liszt
Engraving by August Weger

Piano Sonata in B Minor
 (Leipzig: Breitkopf
& Härtel, [1854])

Les Préludes
 (Leipzig; New York: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1856)

  
 
"Ich scheide” Manuscript, [1860] Manuscript, [1860] letter to cosima Liszt von Bülow letter to cosima Liszt von Bülow

“Ich scheide”
Manuscript, [1860]

Letter to Cosima Liszt von Bülow
September 4, 1866
   
Manuscript of “Salve Polonia” from Die Legende vom heiligen Stanislaus Manuscript of “Salve Polonia” from Die Legende vom heiligen Stanislaus Manuscript of “Salve Polonia” from Die Legende vom heiligen Stanislaus Manuscript of “Salve Polonia” from Die Legende vom heiligen Stanislaus Manuscript of “Salve Polonia” from Die Legende vom heiligen Stanislaus

“Salve Polonia”
from
Die Legende vom heiligen Stanislaus
Draft manuscript, [ca. 1863]
       

Arrangement of Jean Louis Nicodé's Etude, Op. 12, no. 2, Manuscript, [1877] In this manuscript, Liszt adds a left-hand counter-melody to an etude by another composer.


Arrangement of
Jean Louis Nicodé's Etude,
Op. 12, no. 2
Manuscript, [1877]

Franz Liszt
Photograph, ca. 1886

 “Sunt lacrymae rerum” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883]

“Sunt lacrymae rerum”
from
Années de pélerinage, 3e année
Copyist’s manuscript
with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883]

 
     
“Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883] “Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883] “Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883] “Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883]
“Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883]
       
“Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883] “Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883] “Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883]  
“Sursum corda” from Années de pélerinage, 3e année Copyist’s manuscript with annotations by Liszt, [ca. 1883] (continued from above)
       
Franz Liszt: Artist and Man, 1811–1840 Translated by Miss E. Cowdery (London: W.H. Allen, 1882) Volume 1 Liszt’s Kiss (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007) rose kissed by liszt Liszt kept this medallion of his patron saint on his night-stand. His great-granddaughter gave it to Toscanini, who in turn gave it to Horowitz.
Lina Ramann. Franz Liszt: Artist
and Man, 1811–1840 Translated by
Miss E. Cowdery (London: W.H.
Allen, 1882), Volume 1
Susanne Dunlap
Liszt’s Kiss
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Rose Kissed by Liszt
1880s
Medallion of St. Francis of Assisi