SKU: PR.510079380
Composed in 1834, Liszt's Grand duo is based on material from three pieces from the first book (op. 19b) of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words (no. 1 in E major, no. 6 in G minor, and no. 3 in A major). While Liszt made an almost literal transcription of the first piece, he gave the second and third pieces a much freer arrangement, in the style of concert paraphrases. The large-scale concert piece was premiered by Liszt and Chopin on Christmas Day 1834 in a salon in Paris. The Grand duo was not published in Liszt's lifetime, and has survived as a draft.Schubert's Fantasy in C major (also known as the Wanderer Fantasy) was a defining musical experience for the young Liszt. He arranged this masterpiece of Romantic piano literature for piano and orchestra in 1851, at the beginning of his Weimar period, and it was premiered by Julius Egghard in Vienna in December of that year. By 1855, Liszt had transcribed this arrangement for two pianos, because it was played on 22 October 1855 at a concert held in Weimar in honour of his birthday. With the version for piano and orchestra, Liszt attuned the fantasy to the requirements of the concert hall, reinforcing the orchestral effects inherent in Schubert's composition. His aim with the two-piano version was to achieve a similarly grand effect in spaces too small for an orchestra. The arrangement for piano and orchestra appeared in print in 1857, followed by the two-piano version in 1862.This volume comes complete with a detailed preface in English, German, and Hungarian containing new research findings, several manuscript facsimiles, and a critical report in English.
SKU: PR.510079200
UPC: 680160674343.
Volume 15 of the Supplement Series presents an earlier version of the Concerto in a solo piano edition, along with earlier and alternate versions of Liszt original pieces and transcriptions. The paper and cloth editions have identical contents, but the cloth edition contains critical notes and commentary. This volume completes the initial phase of The New Liszt Edition. Series I: Works for Solo Piano (18 volumes), Series II: Free Arrangements and Transcriptions (24 volumes), and the Supplement to Series I and II (15 volumes) were presented over a span of almost fifty years. Every volume is available in both a paperback performing edition and a hardcover critical edition. See an overview of the New Liszt Edition at EMB's website.
SKU: PR.510079210
UPC: 680160674350.
SKU: PR.510079390
SKU: BT.EMBZ20017A
English-German-Hungarian.
In 1845 Franz Liszt embarked on a project to compose an Italian opera based on Lord Byron’s tragedy, Sardanapalus (1821). It was central to his ambition to attain status as a major European composer, with premieres variously planned for Milan, Vienna, Paris and London. But he abandoned it half way through, and the music he completed has lain silently for 170 years. Liszt’s difficulty in obtaining a libretto meant that composition only began in April 1850. He completed virtually all the music for Act 1 in an annotated piano-vocal score of 111 pages, contained within his N4 music ‘sketch book’. The unnamed librettist was an Italian poet and political prisoner, seemingly living under house arrest, and a close acquaintance of Cristina Belgiojoso. His libretto survives as underlay in the N4 sketchbook and has been critically reconstructed and translated. Sardanapalo is Liszt’s only mature opera. While he consistently referred to it in French, as Sardanapale, the published title of the Italian opera would almost certainly have used the Italian name, hence this forms the title of the first edition. There are three solo roles and a chorus of concubines. The manuscript was previously thought to be fragmentary and partially illegible, but it was finally deciphered to international acclaim in March 2017. Liszt’s score offers a richly melodic style, with elements from Bellini and Verdi alongside glimmers of Wagner and the symphonic poems ahead: a unique mixture of Italianate pastiche and mid-century harmonic innovation. It remains quintessentially Lisztian. The opera sets Byron’s tragedy about war and peace in ancient Assyria: the last King, effeminate in his tastes, is drawn to wine, concubines and feasts more than politics and war: his subjects find him dishonourable (a ‘man queen’) and military rebels seek to overthrow him, but are pardoned, for the King rejects the ‘deceit of glory’ built on others’ suffering: this leads only to a larger uprising, the Euphrates floods its banks, destroying the castle’s main defensive wall, and defeat is inevitable: the King sends his family away and orders that he be burned alive with his lover, amid scents and spices in a grand inferno. As Byron put it: ‘not a mere pillar formed of cloud and flame, but a light to lessen ages.’ For his part, Liszt told a friend that his finale ‘will even aim to set fire to the entire audience!’ This critical edition includes a detailed study on the genesis of Liszt’s Sardanapalo in English, German, and Hungarian, the libretto in the original Italian as well as in English, German, and Hungarian translation, several facsimile pages of Liszt’s manuscript, and a detailed Critical Report.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14567
The main part of Supplement Volume 12 features the predecessor of the Grandes Études de Paganini, a series of six études written after Paganini between 1838 and 1840, and referred to by Liszt as transcendent performance (Études d'exécution transcendante d'apres Paganini). The series was inspired not only by the virtuoso violinist and composer's Caprices and Violin Concerto in B minor but also by Schumann's Paganini Études, which Liszt presumably encountered thanks to Clara Wieck at the beginning of 1838. The volume also includes the first and second solo piano versions of Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (1840 and 1841), which Liszt composed a number of times in several versions,as well as two Wagner transcriptions and the first versions of adaptations of two works by Russian composers. A detailed preface in Hungarian, English and German, including new research results, numerous manuscript facsimiles and critical notes make this volume of the New Liszt Edition a specially important publication of scholarly value. Simultaneously with the Complete Edition volume in cloth-bound, its paperback for practical purposes is also published, the contents of which, except for the critical notes, is identical with the Complete Edition volume. The GRANDES ETUDES D´APRES PAGANINI are a series of six études for the piano written by Liszt. The pieces are based on the compositions of Niccolò Paganini for violin. Other pieces based on various other composers are also included in the volume. Adetailed preface in Hungarian, English and German, including new research results, numerous manuscript facsimiles and critical notes make this volume of the New Liszt Edition a specially important publication of scholarly value. Simultaneously withthis paperback for practical purposes, its cloth-bound Complete Edition volume is also published with the critical notes. Die GRANDES ETUDES D´APRES PAGANINI umfassen sechs Etüden von Liszt, die auf Kompositionen von Niccolò Paganini für Violine zurückgehen. Darüber hinaus enthält die Ausgabe eine Reihe anderer Etüden von Liszt, die auf verschiedene Komponistenzurückgehen. Eine detaillierte Beschreibung auf Ungarisch, Englisch und Deutsch, die kritische Forschungsergebnisse aufgreift, eine Vielzahl an Manuskript-Facsimiles und kritischen Anmerkungen machen diese Taschenbuchausgabe der bekannten New LisztEdition auch für den täglichen Gebrauch besonders wertvoll. Die gebundene Ausgabe enthält ebenfalls die kritischen Anmerkungen.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14567A
The main part of Supplement Volume 12 features the predecessor of the Grandes Études de Paganini, a series of six études written after Paganini between 1838 and 1840, and referred to by Liszt as transcendent performance (Études d'exécution transcendante d'apres Paganini). The series was inspired not only by the virtuoso violinist and composer's Caprices and Violin Concerto in B minor but also by Schumann's Paganini Études, which Liszt presumably encountered thanks to Clara Wieck at the beginning of 1838. The volume also includes the first and second solo piano versions of Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (1840 and 1841), which Liszt composed a number of times in several versions,as well as two Wagner transcriptions and the first versions of adaptations of two works by Russian composers. A detailed preface in Hungarian, English and German, including new research results, numerous manuscript facsimiles and critical notes make this volume of the New Liszt Edition a specially important publication of scholarly value. Simultaneously with the Complete Edition volume in cloth-bound, its paperback for practical purposes is also published, the contents of which, except for the critical notes, is identical with the Complete Edition volume. The GRANDES ETUDES D´APRES PAGANINI are a series of six études for the piano written by Liszt. The pieces are based on the compositions of Niccolò Paganini for violin. Other pieces based on various other composers are also included in the volume. Adetailed preface in Hungarian, English and German, including new research results, numerous manuscript facsimiles and critical notes make this volume of the New Liszt Edition a specially important publication of scholarly value. Simultaneously withthis paperback for practical purposes, its cloth-bound Complete Edition volume is also published with the critical notes. Die GRANDES ETUDES D´APRES PAGANINI umfassen sechs Etüden von Liszt, die auf Kompositionen von Niccolò Paganini für Violine zurückgehen. Darüber hinaus enthält die Ausgabe eine Reihe anderer Etüden von Liszt, die auf verschiedene Komponistenzurückgehen. Eine detaillierte Beschreibung auf Ungarisch, Englisch und Deutsch, die kritische Forschungsergebnisse aufgreift, eine Vielzahl an Manuskript-Facsimiles und kritischen Anmerkungen machen diese gebundene Ausgabe der bekannten New LisztEdition besonders wertvoll. Das Pendant im Taschenbuchformat enthält ebenfalls die kritischen Anmerkungen.
SKU: PR.510809830
ISBN 9790080147634.
Once Editio Musica Budapest had published critical editions of the complete piano solo works of Franz Liszt, they began work on a Supplement Series with the goal of publishing earlier and alternative editions of those works. Now in Volume 14, the editors present two alternate versions of the seminal Weihnachtsbaum: the first version (from autograph) and an early published version. Included also are alternate versions of his Annees de pelerinage, Troisieme annee and the Schlummerlied im Grabe, Die Trauergondel, and others. As always, both versions include background information on all pieces and facsimile copies. The hardbound edition includes all critical notes and a handsome blue hardcover, matching the rest of the series.
SKU: PR.510036740
ISBN 9790080300299. UPC: 680160532056.
Volume 23, the penultimate volume in Series II of the complete edition contains free arrangements by Liszt dating from between 1859 and 1861. The best-known among these are the three Verdi opera fantasias: the Miserere du Trovatore, Ernani and Rigoletto, together with the two Wagner transcriptions: the Spinnerlied aus Der fliegende Hollander and the Fantasiestuck uber Motive aus Rienzi. The volume also contains two transcriptions each from Berlioz and Lassen, and one each from Bach, Meyerbeer and Dietsch. An interesting addition is the early version included in the appendix, which represents an important basis for study of the genesis of Ernani.
SKU: PR.510079290
UPC: 680160680399.
Determined to be seen as a complete composer, Liszt set out to create a full-fledged opera, only to later abandon the project. 170 years later, an examination of the manuscript revealed a virtually complete Act One in piano/vocal score form, and Sardanapalo finally came to life. This critical edition includes a detailed study on the genesis of Liszt's Sardanapalo in English, German, and Hungarian, the libretto in the original Italian as well as in English, German, and Hungarian translation, several facsimile pages of Liszt's manuscript, and a detailed Critical Report. (--E.M.B.).
SKU: BT.EMBZ14499A
Of this series of twenty-four études planned by Liszt only twelve were actually written, but the contemporary printed editions of the completed pieces (in the hope of a continuation) appeared with the series title 24 grandes études. By publishing these 12 concert studies it makes the earlier and technically more difficult version of the Transcendental Studies available for the first time since 1911 for study by performers and those engaged in music research. Contrary to the 1911 edition among the volumes of the first complete Liszt edition, NLE will publish also the text variants of some studies, an album leaf in F sharp major in facsimile and in transcription considered asthe 13th study planned by Liszt for the series, and the earlier versions of the so-called Mazeppa and Ab irato studies. In the volume will be published the puzzling album leaf, the so-called ''Prélude omnitonique'' and some similar album leaves, too. Von den 24 Etüden dieser Serie, die Liszt ursprünglich geplant hatte, wurden tatsächlich nur 12 fertig, die zeitgenössischen gedruckten Ausgaben erschienen in der Hoffnung auf eine Fortsetzung dennoch unter dem Serientitel ‚24 große Etüden'. Mit der Veröffentlichung dieser zwölf Konzertetüden wird die frühere und technisch schwierigere Version der Transzendenten Etüden seit 1911 erstmalig für die Interpreten und Forscher zugänglich. Im Gegensatz zur 1911 als Band der ersten Liszt-Gesamtausgabe erschienenen Ausgabe werden in der NLA auch die Textversionen mancher Etüden publiziert, ebenso wie das Fis-Dur Albumblatt (als Faksimile und moderne Transkription), welches auch alsSkizze der geplanten dreizehnten Etüde angesehen werden kann, außerdem die früheren Versionen der sog. Mazeppa- und Ab irato-Etüden. Auch das geheimnisvolle Albumblatt, das sog. ‚Prélude omnitonique' wurde, ebenso wie weitere ähnliche Albumblätter in diesen Band aufgenommen.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14499
Of this series of twenty-four études planned by Liszt only twelve were actually written, but the contemporary printed editions of the completed pieces (in the hope of a continuation) appeared with the series title '24 grandes études'. By publishing these 12 concert studies it makes the earlier and technically more difficult version of the Transcendental Studies available for the first time since 1911 for study by performers and those engaged in music research. Contrary to the 1911 edition among the volumes of the first complete Liszt edition, NLE will publish also the text variants of some studies, an album leaf in F sharp major in facsimile and in transcription considered asthe 13th study planned by Liszt for the series, and the earlier versions of so-called Mazeppa and Ab irato studies. In the volume will be published the puzzling album leaf, the so-called 'Prélude omnitonique' and some similar album leaves, too. Von den 24 Etüden dieser Serie, die Liszt ursprünglich geplant hatte, wurden tatsächlich nur 12 fertig, die zeitgenössischen gedruckten Ausgaben erschienen in der Hoffnung auf eine Fortsetzung dennoch unter dem Serientitel ‚24 große Etüden'. Mit der Veröffentlichung dieser zwölf Konzertetüden wird die frühere und technisch schwierigere Version der Transzendenten Etüden seit 1911 erstmalig für die Interpreten und Forscher zugänglich. Im Gegensatz zur 1911 als Band der ersten Liszt-Gesamtausgabe erschienenen Ausgabe werden in der NLA auch die Textversionen mancher Etüden publiziert, ebenso wie das Fis-Dur Albumblatt (als Faksimile und moderne Transkription), welches auch alsSkizze der geplanten dreizehnten Etüde angesehen werden kann, außerdem die früheren Versionen der sog. Mazeppa- und Ab irato-Etüden. Auch das geheimnisvolle Albumblatt, das sog. ‚Prélude omnitonique' wurde, ebenso wie weitere ähnliche Albumblätter in diesen Band aufgenommen. Des 24 études prévues initialement, seules 12 furent terminées, mais elles furent toutefois éditées sous le nom initial de 24 Grandes Études. Cette édition contient également des textes et de nombreuses autres pièces tels que des esquisses, des études de perfectionnement et des versions antérieures de la Mazeppa.
SKU: BT.EMBZ12267
The Technical Studies 2 is the second volume of Supplements which completes New Liszt Edition with 11 volumes. Liszt's series of exercises designed to maintain or further perfect piano technique which has already attained the highest level, are now accessible in their entirety. The Critical Notes make it possible to study, among other things, the most important discrepancies between the sources of the volume. The thematic Index provides an overview of the content of all three volumes of the Technical Studies. Out of stock. Please buy Z.12267A at the same price.Die Technische Studien - ein Teil der Supplementbände-Serie der Neuen Liszt-Ausgabe - ist eine Übungsserie für die Aufrechterhaltung der schon erworbenen Klaviertechniken vom höchsten Niveau und eventuell auch für deren weiteren Präzision bestimmt. Durch diese zwei Bände (Z. 12266, Z. 12267) wird die Übungsserie in ihrer Ganzheit zugänglich. In den kritischen Anmerkungen der zwei Bände lassen sich unter anderem die wichtigeren Quellenunterschiede der Bände nachvollziehen. Aufgrund des thematischen Indexes wird der Inhalt aller drei Bände der Technischen Studien überschaubar.
SKU: HL.50511992
ISBN 9790080145067. 23 x 30 cm inches. Hungarian, English, German. Ferenc Liszt; Imre Mezo.
Volume11 of in the series of Supplements represents an important step towards completion of the series for solo piano included in the NLE, as a complete critical edition. By publishing all the early versions it makes the piano versions of these symphonies by Beethoven available for study by performers and those engaged in music research.Similarly to the other NLE volumes already published, this volume comes cloth-bound (Z. 14506a) or hard-paper-bound (Z. 14506), the former as part of the Complete Edition, the latter as part of the series containing solo piano works. The preface to the series, the prefaces to the works contained in this volume (in German, English and Hungarian) and the facsimiles with which it is illustrated are to be found in both versions, the critical notes in English are included only in the cloth-bound version.
SKU: PR.510050410
ISBN 9790080300534. UPC: 680160576197.
Volume11 of in the series of Supplements represents an important step towards completion of the series for solo piano included in the NLE, as a complete critical edition. By publishing all the early versions it makes the piano versions of these symphonies by Beethoven available for study by performers and those engaged in music research. Similarly to the other NLE volumes already published, this volume comes cloth-bound (Z. 14506a) or hard-paper-bound (Z. 14506), the former as part of the Complete Edition, the latter as part of the series containing solo piano works. The preface to the series, the prefaces to the works contained in this volume (in German, English and Hungarian) and the facsimiles with which it is illustrated are to be found in both versions, the critical notes in English are included only in the cloth-bound version.
SKU: BT.EMBZ12266A
The Technical Studies 1 is the opening volume of Supplements which completes New Liszt Edition with 11 volumes. Liszt's series of exercises designed to maintain or further perfect piano technique which has already attained the highest level. The Critical Notes make it possible to study, among other things, the most important discrepancies between the sources of the volume. The thematic Index provides an overview of the content of all three volumes of the Technical Studies.Die Technische Studien - ein Teil der Supplementbände-Serie der Neuen Liszt-Ausgabe - ist eine Übungsserie für die Aufrechterhaltung der schon erworbenen Klaviertechniken vom höchsten Niveau und eventuell auch für deren weiteren Präzision bestimmt. Durch diese zwei Bände (Z. 12266A, Z. 12267A) wird die Übungsserie in ihrer Ganzheit zugänglich. In den kritischen Anmerkungen der zwei Bände lassen sich unter anderem die wichtigeren Quellenunterschiede der Bände nachvollziehen. Aufgrund des thematischen Indexes wird der Inhalt aller drei Bände der Technischen Studien überschaubar.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14500A
As supplements to the final versions already published in the New Liszt Edition, in this series early versions are being published. The present volume contains the seven pieces from the Swiss years of the Années de pélerinage, together with the three pieces known as the Trois morceaux suisses, as they first appeared as part of the series Album d'un voyageur. Another work that may be of interest is a later version of the Clochette fantasy that remained unpublished in Liszt's lifetime. The description and evaluation of the sources and the notes included in the volume are detailed and full enough to satisfy all scolary requirements.Als Ergänzung zu den endgültigen Versionen in der Neuen Liszt-Ausgabe werden in dieser Serie die früheren Versionen präsentiert. Dieser Band enthält sieben Stücke des Années de pelerinage aus dem Schweizer Jahr und drei Stücke des Trois morceaux suisses in der selben Form, wie sie zum ersten Mal, als Teil der Album d.un voyageur-Serie erschienen. Neben dieser Werken könnte auch eine im Leben Liszts unerschienen gebliebene, spätere Version der Clochette-Fantasie Interesse erwecken. Die Quellenaufarbeitung und die Kommentare des Bandes sind jedem wissenschaftlichen Anspruch erfüllend detailliert und vom reichen Inhalt gekennzeichnet.
SKU: BT.EMBZ14500
As supplements to the final versions already published in the New Liszt Edition, in this series early versions are being published. The present volume contains the seven pieces from the Swiss years of the Années de pélerinage, together with the three pieces known as the Trois morceaux suisses, as they first appeared as part of the series Album d'un voyageur. Another work that may be of interest is a later version of the Clochette fantasia that remained unpublished in Liszt's lifetime. The description and evaluation of the sources and the notes included in the volume are detailed and full enough to satisfy all scolary requirements.Als Ergänzung zu den endgültigen Versionen in der Neuen Liszt-Ausgabe werden in dieser Serie die früheren Versionen präsentiert. Dieser Band enthält sieben Stücke des Années de pelerinage aus dem Schweizer Jahr und drei Stücke des Trois morceaux suisses in der selben Form, wie sie zum ersten Mal, als Teil der Album d.un voyageur-Serie erschienen. Neben dieser Werken könnte auch eine im Leben Liszts unerschienen gebliebene, spätere Version der Clochette-Fantasie Interesse erwecken. Die Quellenaufarbeitung und die Kommentare des Bandes sind jedem wissenschaftlichen Anspruch erfüllend detailliert und vom reichen Inhalt gekennzeichnet.
SKU: PR.510809840
ISBN 9790080300572.
SKU: PR.510078200
UPC: 680160619108.
In the continuing Supplement to EMB's Series I and Series II of the New Liszt Edition, Volume 12 presents earlier and/or alternate versions of works previously covered in the preceding Series. Perhaps no other event had the profound effect upon the young Liszt as his exposureto the artistry of Paganini, a master who brought his own instrument to new heights and new demands. Soon after, Liszt composed his own set of Bravourstudien, studies intended for superhuman pianists, later know as the Grandes Etudes de Paganini. This Supplement volume presents an excellent overview, multiple manuscript copies, and critical editions of earlier published versions (in the clothbound version). For advanced pianists.
