The Schubert Song Transcription (Schubert's Complete Song Texts): The Complete Schwanengesang (Dover Classical Piano Music) - Softcover

Liszt, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486406229 ISBN 13: 9780486406220

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2009

Synopsis

The foremost pianist-composer of his day, Franz Liszt unselfishly promoted the works of his fellow composers through his brilliant piano transcriptions of their music. Among his most inspired contributions to the literature were his legendary transcriptions of Franz Schubert's songs.
This volume -- the third and last in Dover's popular series of Liszt-Schubert song transcriptions -- contains Schubert's complete Schwanengesang (Swan Song), including "Abschied," "Am Meer," "Das Fischermädchen," "Ständchen" (the world-famous "Serenade"), "Der Doppelganger," and nine other great lieder.
Reproduced from extremely rare early editions edited by Liszt himself, these dazzling transcriptions retain all the lyric beauty and emotional depth of Schubert's original music, yet reflect Liszt's incomparable mastery of the difficult art of transcription from the original medium of voice and piano to that of solo piano. A modestly priced collection of hard-to-find treasures of 19th century literature, these unique facsimile reproductions will be prized by pianists and all lovers of fine music.

About this title

About the Author:

Composer, conductor, and teacher Franz Liszt (1811-86) was renowned throughout Europe for his skills as a concert pianist. The quintessential romantic, he created an extensive and diverse oeuvre that ranges from influential experiments in musical form to more conventional pieces as well as transcriptions of works by other composers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0486406229
• ISBN 13: 9780486406220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208