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Among Franz Liszt's many brilliant compositions for piano, few have been so admired and performed as the Sonata in B Minor, long considered one of the greatest piano compositions of the 19th century. A work of consummate structural ingenuity, it combines and transforms four distinctive themes in one long movement, in the free, rhapsodic development characteristic of the symphonic poem.
A great favorite of pianists and their audiences, this piano masterpiece is reprinted here from the authoritative Franz Liszt-Stiftung edition published by Breitkopf & Härtel. Included with it are a number of other well-known Liszt compositions. Among these are the six beautiful pieces entitled Consolations; all ten works in the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, including the popular "Funérailles"; the two Ballades, larger-scale works which require considerable technical prowess; and the two Légendes, "The Sermon to the Birds of St. Francis of Assisi" and "St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves."
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486171852 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Dover Publications |
| Publication date: | 05/22/2013 |
| Series: | Dover Classical Piano Music |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Sales rank: | 1,009,351 |
| File size: | 216 MB |
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Sonata in B Minor and Other Works for Piano
By Franz Liszt, José Vianna da Motta
Dover Publications, Inc.
Copyright © 1990 Dover Publications, Inc.All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-486-17185-2
CHAPTER 1
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Poetic and Religious Harmonies
Il y a des âmes méditatives que la solitude et la contemplation élèvent invinciblement vers les idées infinies, c'est-à-dire vers la religion; toutes leurs pensées se convertissent en enthousiasme et en prière, toute leur existence est un hymne muet à la Divinité et à l'espéranee. Elles cherchent en elles-mêmes et dans la creation qui les environne des degrés pour monter à Dieu, des expressions et des images pour se le révéler à elles-mêmes, pour se révéler à lui: puissé-je leur en prêter quelques-unes!
II y a des coeurs brisés par la douleur, refoulés par le monde, qui se réfugient dans le monde de leurs pensées, dans la solitude de leur âme pour pleurer, pour attendre ou pour adorer; puissent-ils se laisser visiter par une Muse solitaire comme eux, trouver une sympathie dans ses accords, et dire quelquefois en l'ecoutant: nous prions avec tes paroles, nous pleurons avec tes larmes, nous invoquons avec tes chants.
LAMARTINE. Avertissement des Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.
Élevez-vous, voix de mon âme
Avec l'aurore, avec la nuit!
Élancez-vous comme la flamme,
Répandez-vous, comme le bruit!
Flottez sur l'aile des nuages,
Mêlez-vous aux vents, aux orages,
Au tonnerre, au fracas des flots!
Élevez-vous dans le silence,
A l'heure où dans l'ombre du soir
La lampe des nuits se balance,
Quand le prêtre éteint l'encensoir!
Élevez-vous aux bords des ondes
Dans les solitudes profondes,
Où Dieu se révèle à la foi!
There are meditative souls who are elevated ineluctably by solitude and contemplation toward infinite ideas, that is, toward religion; all their thoughts are converted into rapture and into prayer, all their existence is a mute hymn to the Divinity and to hope. They seek in themselves and in the creation that surrounds them steps by which to ascend to God, expressions and images that will reveal Him to themselves and themselves to Him: may it be granted me to impart something similar!
There are hearts broken by grief, trampled down by the world, that seek refuge in the world of their thoughts, in the solitude of their soul, to weep, to wait, or to worship; may they consent to be visited by a Muse as solitary as they, find a sympathetic resonance in her chords, and sometimes say while listening to her: We pray with your words, we weep with your tears, we entreat with your songs.
LAMARTINE. Prefatory note to Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.
Rise, voice of my soul,
With the dawn, with the night!
Leap forth like the flame,
Scatter like sound!
Float on the clouds' wing,
Mingle in the winds, in the storms,
In the thunder, in the roar of the waves!
Rise in the silence,
At the hour when in the shadow of evening
The night lamp swings,
When the priest extinguishes the censer!
Rise to the edge of the waters
In the profound solitudes,
Where God reveals himself to faith!
3.
D'où me vient, ô mon Dieu, cette paix qui m'inonde?
D'où me vient cette foi dont mon coeur surabonde,
A moi qui tout à l'heure, incertain, agité,
Et sur les flots du doute à tout vent ballotté,
Cherchais le bien, le vrai, dans les rêves des sages.
Et la paix dans des coeurs retentissant d'orages?
A peine sur mon front quelques jours ont glissé,
Il me semble qu'un siècle et qu'un monde ont passé,
Et que, séparé d'eux par un abîme immense,
Un nouvel homme en moi renaît et recommence.
LAMARTINE.
3.
Whence comes, O God, this peace which floods over me?
Whence comes this faith with which my heart overflows?
To me who, not long ago, uncertain, restless,
And tossed on waves of doubt by every wind,
Sought the good, the true, in the dreams of worldly sages
And peace in hearts resounding with tempests?
Scarcely have a few days brushed past my brow,
And it seems that a century and a world have passed away,
And that, separated from them by an immense abyss,
A new man is reborn and begins again in me.
(Continues...)
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Table of Contents
Editoria NotesSonata in B Minor (Dedicated to Robert Schumann)
"Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (Dedicated to Jeanne Elisabeth Carolyne, Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein)"
1. Invocation
2. Ave Maria
3. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
4. Pensée des morts
5. Pater noster
6. Hymne de l'enfant à son réveil
7. Funérailles
8. "Miserere, d'après Palestrina"
9. Andante lagrimoso
10. Cantique d'amour
Ballade No. 1 in D-flat Major (Dedicated to Prince Eugen Wittgenstein)
Ballade No. 2 in B Minor (Dedicated to Count Karl von Leiningen)
Consolations
I. (E Major) andante con moto
II. (E Major) Un poco più mosso
III. (D-flat Major) Lento placido
IV. (D-flat Major) Quasi adagio
V. (E Major) Andantino
VI. (E Major) Allegretto sempre cantabile
Légendes (Dedicated to Cosima von Bülow)
St. Francois d'Assise. La prédication aux oiseaux
St. Francois de Paule marchant sur les flots