I hope you will not take it amiss if I dispense with this and regard my arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies as complete at the end of the 3rd movement of the Ninth." (He had in fact completed a transcription of the Ninth Symphony for two pianos in 1850.) Nevertheless, he made another attempt after an expressive letter from Breitkopf & Härtel, and expressed "the range achieved by the pianoforte in recent years as a result of progress both in playing technique and in terms of mechanical improvements enables more and better things to be achieved than was previously possible. When Liszt began work transcribing the ninth symphony, he expressed that "after a great deal of experimentation in various directions, I was unable to deny the utter impossibility of even a partially satisfactory and effective arrangement of the 4th movement. He would note down the names of the orchestral instruments for the pianist to imitate, and also add pedal marks and fingerings for amateurs and sight readers. For this work, Liszt recycled his previous transcriptions by simplifying passages, stating that "the more intimately acquainted one becomes with Beethoven, the more one clings to certain singularities and finds that even insignificant details are not without their value". It was not until 1863 that Breitkopf & Härtel suggested to Liszt that he transcribe the complete set for a future publication. With three symphonies transcribed, Liszt set aside the work for another 23 years. During his 1840 travels in Europe he might have given the transcribed symphonies some publicity by playing them at his concerts. Liszt was paid 8 francs per page by Breitkopf & Härtel, who first requested two symphonies to be transcribed. In 1843, he arranged the third movement of the Third Symphony, which was later published by Pietro Mechetti in 1850. They are among the most technically demanding piano music ever written.īy 1837, Liszt appears to have completed the transcriptions of the fifth, sixth and seventh symphonies, of which the fifth and sixth were published by Breitkopf & Härtel and the seventh by Tobias Haslinger. Transcriptions for solo piano by Franz Liszt Franz Liszt in 1884 – twenty years after his completion of the symphony transcriptions.īeethoven Symphonies ( French: Symphonies de Beethoven), S.464, are a set of nine transcriptions for solo piano by Franz Liszt of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies 1–9.
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