Liszt (Huydts): 5 Late Works, arr. for woodwind quintet

Code: JP5090
ISMN: 979-0-3019-0525-8

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was born in Hungary. His father, Adam Liszt, was an official in the service of Prince Nicolas Eszterhazy. When only nine Franz made his first public appearance as a concert pianist. His playing so impressed the local Hungarian magnates that they agreed to provide the money to pay for his musical education for the next six years. Adam obtained a leave of absence from his post and took Franz to Vienna, where he had piano lessons with Carl Czerny and studied composition with Antonio Salieri, the musical director at the Viennese court.

Franz was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and, in the 1840s, was considered by some to be the greatest pianist of all time. As a composer, Liszt left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable contributions included the creation of the symphonic poem, the development of the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form, and the use of radical departures in harmony.

Five late piano works have been arranged for woodwind quintet by Sebastian Huydts and provide a wonderful addition to the romantic repertoire for woodwind quintet. The five movements are based on Romance Oubliee (1880), Unstern (1881), Schlaflos! (1883), Nuages gris (1881) and Abschied (1881).

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