Liszt: Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens", S. 122
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Shipping Policy- Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Format: Full Score
- Instrumentation: Piano, Orchestra
- Work: Fantasie über Motive aus Beethovens Ruinen von Athen (Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven's "Ruins of Athens"), S. 122, LW H9
- Pages: 62
Description
Description
Liszt, Franz – Fantasie für Klavier and Orchester über Themen aus L. v. Beethovens ‘Die Ruinen von Athen', Op. 113′
(b. Raiding/Hungary, 22. October 1811 – d. Bayreuth, 31.July 1886)
S.122 (1852)
No other 19th-century composer has had such a lasting influence on the development of the modern piano concerto as Franz Liszt. with his innovative combination of virtuosic brilliance, symphonic thinking and poetic programme music, he created works that went far beyond the traditional concerto form. However, a closer examination of Liszt's concertante works for piano and orchestra reveals that this area of his extensive oeuvre remains comparatively under-researched to this day. Publications often contradict one another regarding the dates of composition of individual works; some completed compositions are mistakenly described as fragments, whilst other arrangements or sketches have been accorded a status almost equivalent to that of a complete work. Fortunately, this is not the case with the ‘Fantasy on themes from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens'. It is one of Liszt's clearly documented and complete concert works and occupies a special place within his oeuvre.
Liszt was often accused by his contemporaries, as well as by later musicologists, of taking too many liberties with the original works in his numerous arrangements. in fact, he did not view the art of transcription as a mere transfer of a work to another instrument, but rather as a creative development. His arrangements were intended to preserve the spirit of the originals whilst at the same time enriching them with his own musical language. As early as 1834, the "Grande fantaisie symphonique" on themes from Hector Berlioz's "Lélio" was composed, a work that exemplifies how Liszt transformed other people's musical material into a highly virtuosic concert piece. He took a similar approach in the later "Fantasy on Motifs from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens", which was conceived towards the end of the 1840s and finally completed in 1852.
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