This sheet music is part of the collection of free-scores-admin :
Années de
pèlerinage (Years of
Pilgrimage) (S.160, S.161,
S.163) is a set of three
suites by Franz Liszt for solo
piano. Liszt's complete
musical style is evident in
this masterwork, which ranges
from virtuosic fireworks to
sincerely moving emotional
statements. His musical
maturity can be seen evolving
through his experience and
travel. The third volume is
especially notable as an
example of his later style. It
was composed well after the
first two volumes and displays
less showy virtuosity and more
harmonic experimentation.
The title Années de
pèlerinage refers to
Goethe?s famous novel of
self-realization, Wilhelm
Meister's Apprenticeship.
Liszt clearly places the work
in line with the Romantic
literature of his time,
prefacing most pieces with a
literary passage from writers
such as Schiller, Byron or
Senancour, and, in an
introduction to the entire
work, writing, "Having
recently travelled to many new
countries, through different
settings and places
consecrated by history and
poetry; having felt that the
phenomena of nature and their
attendant sights did not pass
before my eyes as pointless
images but stirred deep
emotions in my soul, and that
between us a vague but
immediate relationship had
established itself, an
undefined but real rapport, an
inexplicable but undeniable
communication, I have tried to
portray in music a few of my
strongest sensations and most
lively
impressions."[1]