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Franz Liszt: Ballades

Of Liszt’s two Ballades, the second is the more substantial, the more menacing and also the more popular. Its inspiration is supposed to have been Gottfried Bürgers Lenore, a spectral romance in which a ghostly rider, posing as Lenore’s dead lover, carries her away on a macabre night ride through an eerie landscape illuminated by flashes of lightning. It culminates in a revelation of the rider as Death himself—a skeleton with scythe and hourglass.
The earlier, first Ballade is a brighter work, clearly inspired by Chopin, who died in the year of its publication.

Sheet Music Downloads:

Title	Key	Published	Type	Level
Ballade no 1	D-flat Major	1848	Piece	8+
Ballade no 2	B Minor	1853	Piece	8+

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