Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3
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- Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
- Editor: Peter Jost
- Fingering: Vincenzo Maltempo
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: No. 3 from Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244, LW A132
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 10
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 is the shortest of his series of 19 Rhapsodies published in 1852 and represents an extensive reworking of a Hungarian National Melody published already ten years before. A comparison of the two shows that Liszt does justice to his new title of "Rhapsody" through a substantially freer treatment of harmony, rhythm and compositional structure. Typical characteristics of this series of works - such as augmented seconds, oscillation between Major and Minor and seemingly improvised cadenzas - appear here in a unique density.
Since none of Liszt's manuscripts for this piece are extant today, all available printed sources (an advance copy plus the first edition and a reprint) were carefully compared. Two prominent Liszt specialists were involved in preparing this Urtext edition: Mária Eckhardt wrote the preface, and Vincenzo Maltempo provided the fingerings.
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3
