Franz Liszt: Ave Maria Von Arcadelt: Organ: Instrumental Work

Franz Liszt composed his lyrical-meditative organ fantasia on the Ave Maria von Arcadelt in Rome in 1863. In contrast to his major virtuoso works this charming genre piece can even be easily played on smaller (double-manual) instruments even without swell-organ and reeds. The 'Liszt organ' at the village church of Denstedt near Weimar which was built by the Peternell brothers in 1859/60 and has survived in its original state may be used as an example. It did not become known until in 1927 that the Ave Maria attributed to Jakob Arcadelt (around 1505-1568) was a revised version by the composer Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch (1808 1865) who used the melody of Arcadelt'schanson Nous voyons que les hommes which he then harmonized into his own Romantic four-part choral setting and to which he added the sacred text as a contrafactum. Our separate edition wants to make this rather 'poetic' yet quite easy-to-play organ work without any major technical difficulties accessible to a large circle of interested people.

Edited By Forrai Miklós. 'Josquin des Prés, à savoir la forme 1450 le début des cinq siècles de riche musique chorale européenne sur laquelle la modeste collection actuelle a été compilée. La majorité des oeuvres publiées ici sont issues du monde de la Renaissance, l'âge d'or de la musique chorale. En outre, les chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature romantique du 19ème siècle jeter dans l'ombre jusqu'ici sont présentés en abondance. C'est la tâche du 'siècle prochain' pour fournir une vue d'ensemble du monde choral culture de notre temps, le 20ème siècle ... 'Miklós Forrai (1994)/ Recueil / Chant