Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) was a Hungarian composer,
virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger,
and organist of the Romantic era. He is widely regarded
as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He was
also a writer, philanthropist, Hungarian nationalist,
and Franciscan tertiary. He gained renown in Europe
during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious
virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical
promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time,
including Fr...(+)
Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) was a Hungarian composer,
virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger,
and organist of the Romantic era. He is widely regarded
as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He was
also a writer, philanthropist, Hungarian nationalist,
and Franciscan tertiary. He gained renown in Europe
during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious
virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical
promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time,
including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan,
Regina Watson, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert
Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard
Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and
Alexander Borodin.
A prolific composer, Liszt was one of the most
prominent representatives of the New German School
(German: Neudeutsche Schule). He left behind an
extensive and diverse body of work which influenced his
forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated
20th-century ideas and trends. Among Liszt's musical
contributions were the symphonic poem, developing
thematic transformation as part of his experiments in
musical form, and radical innovations in harmony. Many
musicians consider Liszt to be the greatest pianist who
ever lived. The critic Peter G. Davis has opined:
"Perhaps [Liszt] was not the most transcendent virtuoso
who ever lived, but his audiences thought he was."
Liszt was a prolific composer. He is best known for his
piano music, but he also wrote for orchestra and for
other ensembles, virtually always including keyboard.
His piano works are often marked by their difficulty.
Some of his works are programmatic, based on
extra-musical inspirations such as poetry or art. Liszt
is credited with the creation of the symphonic poem.
The largest and best-known portion of Liszt's music is
his original piano work. His thoroughly revised
masterwork, "Années de pèlerinage" ("Years of
Pilgrimage") includes arguably his most provocative and
stirring pieces. This set of three suites ranges from
the virtuosity of the Suisse Orage (Storm) to the
subtle and imaginative visualisations of artworks by
Michelangelo and Raphael in the second set. "Années"
contains some pieces which are loose transcriptions of
Liszt's own earlier compositions; the first "year"
recreates his early pieces of "Album d'un voyageur",
while the second book includes a resetting of his own
song transcriptions once separately published as "Tre
sonetti di Petrarca" ("Three sonnets of Petrarch"). The
relative obscurity of the vast majority of his works
may be explained by the immense number of pieces he
composed, and the level of technical difficulty which
was present in much of his composition.
Liszt's piano works are usually divided into two
categories. On the one hand, there are "original
works", and on the other hand "transcriptions",
"paraphrases" or "fantasies" on works by other
composers. Examples for the first category are works
such as the piece Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
of May 1833 and the Piano Sonata in B minor (1853).
Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert songs, his fantasies
on operatic melodies and his piano arrangements of
symphonies by Berlioz and Beethoven are examples from
the second category. As special case, Liszt also made
piano arrangements of his own instrumental and vocal
works. Examples of this kind are the arrangement of the
second movement "Gretchen" of his Faust Symphony and
the first "Mephisto Waltz" as well as the
"Liebesträume No. 3" and the two volumes of his "Buch
der Lieder".
The organ-accompanied mixed choir of Missa choralis
Liszt Ferenc, written in 1865. The date and location of
the world premiere of the work is uncertain, and its
hungarian premiere was in Pest in 1872. The mass's
partition was published in 1869 by kahnt publishing
house. Art Registry No S.10. The Missa choralis choir
mass, the organ, according to Liszt's intentions, only
gives support to the choir, and the role of soloists is
rather subdued. In his musical realization, the
composer used archaic and modern harmonies and
solutions side by side as an example of the Liszt
church music style. His first three theorems are based
on Gregorian themes. Its editing mode is rooted in the
style of Palestrina and Lassus, but it is not only
archaic, but also modern according to its own age.
Puritanical music that is effective through its
simplicity, but is also an outstandingly inspired and
mature work of art.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt)
Although originally written for Chorus (SATB) and
Organ, I created this arrangement of the "Missa
Choralis" in D Minor (S.10) for Winds (Flute, Oboe,
English Horn & Bassoon) & Strings (2 Violins, Viola &
Cello).
SHEET MUSIC