The Penguin Companion to Classical Music by Paul Griffiths

Author:Paul Griffiths
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141909769
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

Piano music

Original works: Grand galop chromatique, 1838; ETUDES D’EXECUTION TRANSCENDANTE d’après Paganini, 1838–40, rev as Grandes études de Paganini, 1851; Tre sonetti del Petrarca, 1843–6 (rev in Années, Vol.2); Rhapsodie espagnole, 1848; 3 Concert Etudes, 1845–9 (Il lamento, La leggierezza, Un sospiro); Liebesträume (3 Notturnos), 1843–50; Consolations (6) 1849–50; ETUDES D’EXéCUTION TRANSCENDANTE, 1851; Scherzo and March, 1851; HARMONIES POETIQUES ET RELIGIEUSES, 2 versions, 1840–53; Valse-impromptu, 1850–52; HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES NoS.1–15, 1846–53; Sonata, B minor, 1852–3; Ballade No.2, B minor, 1853; ANNEES DE PELERINAGE, Vol.1, 1848–55, Vol.2, 1838–61, supplement Venezia e Napoli, 1838–59; Prelude on ‘WEINEN, KLAGEN, SORGEN, ZAGEN’, 1859; Berceuse, D♭, 1854–62; First MEPHISTO WALTZ, 1856–61; 2 Concert Etudes, 1862 (Waldesrauschen, Gnomenreigen);Variations on ‘WEINEN, KLAGEN, SORGEN, ZAGEN’, 1862; Deux légendes, 1863 (St François d’ Assise: la prédication aux oiseaux, St François de Paule marchant sur les flots); Fantasia and Fugue on BACH, 1870; Impromptu (Nocturne), 1872; Weihnachtsbaum, 1874–6; Sancta Dorothea, 1877; Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, 4 versions, 1841–80; Second MEPHISTO WALTZ, 1878–81; Nuages gris, 1881; Unstern!, 1881; ANNEES DE PELERINAGE, Vol.3, 1877–82; Csárdás macabre, 1881–2; La Lugubre Gondola, 2 versions, 1882–5; R.W. – Venezia, 1883; Am Grabe Richard Wagners, 1883; Schlaflos, 1883; Third MEPHISTO WALTZ, 1883; Csárdás obstiné, 1884; HUNGARIAN RHAPSODIES Nos.16–19, 1882–5; Valses oubliées (4), 1881–4 (No.1, F♯); Bagatelle sans tonalité, 1885; En rêve, 1885; etc.

Operatic fantasies: Réminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor, 1835–6; HEXAMERON, 1837–8; Fantaisie sur La sonnambula, 2 versions, 1839–?42; Réminiscences de Don Juan, 1841; Réminiscences de Norma, 1841; Fantasia on themes from Figaro and Don Giovanni, 1842; Tarantelle di bravura after La muette de Portici, 1846; Rigoletto: paraphrase de concert, ?1855; Réminiscences de Boccanegra, 1882; etc.

Symphony transcriptions: Symphonie fantastique (Berlioz), 1833, rev c.1876; Beethoven Nos.5–7 and funeral march from No.3, 1837; Beethoven Nos.1–9, 1863–4

Bach transcriptions: Prelude and Fugue, A minor, 1842–50; Fantasia and Fugue, G minor, 1869

Schubert transcriptions: 12 songs, 1837–8 (‘Auf dem Wasser zu singen’, ‘Erlkönig’, ‘Meeresstille’, ‘Frühlingsglaube’, ‘Gretchen am Spinnrade’, ‘Ständchen “Horch, horch!’”, ‘Das Wandern’, ‘Ave Maria’); Schwanengesang, 1838–9 (‘Liebesbotschaft’, ‘Ständchen “Leise flehen”’); Winterreise, 1838–9; other songs (‘Die Forelle’, 2 versions, 1844–6; ‘Der Müller und der Bach’, 1846; ‘Wohin?’, 1846); etc.

Wagner transcriptions: Overture Tannhäuser, 1847; ‘O du mein holder Abendstern’ (Tannhäuser), 1849; Festspiel und Brautlied (Lohengrin), 1854; Elsas Traum und Lohengrins Verweis, 1854; Spinnerlied (Holländer), 1860; Isoldens Liebestod, 1867; Feierliche Marsch zum heiligen Gral, 1882; etc.

Other transcriptions: ‘Le Rossignol’ (Alyab’yev), 1842; 6 songs (Chopin), 1857–60; Waltz from Faust (Gounod), 1861; Overture to Guillaume Tell (Rossini), ?1838–41; Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), 1876; Widmung (Schumann), ?1846–60s; Frühlingsnacht (Schumann), 1872; Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, 1879; ‘Miserere’ from Il trovatore, 1859; Danza sacra e duetto final from Aida, ?1876; etc.

Duo/duet: versions of orchestral and solo piano works

Liszt Academy. The principal conservatory in Budapest, founded as the Academy of Music in 1875 and given Liszt’s name 50 years later.

litany. Act of praise, wherein a sacred person or object is repeatedly invoked. One such is the Litania lauretana, or Litany of Loreto, associated with the Holy House in that city and devoted to the Virgin Mary. There are settings by Victoria, Palestrina,

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