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Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes

Some may be surprised to learn that when revising the 12 Grandes Etudes from 1837 into the Transcendental Etudes, Liszt made several simplifications  – they certainly still pose enormous technical demands on the player.
Liszt also added programmatic titles to most of the pieces. The fourth study, Mazeppa, generally thought to be the most difficult piece of the set, is named after an historical person, Ivan Mazepa, page in the court of the Polish King John Casimir, whose fate was made famous by poems of Byron, Pushkin and Victor Hugo.
Mazepa became entangled with the wife of a nobleman, and for this he was punished by being tied naked to the back of a wild horse and dragged all the way to Ukraine.
Liszt later expanded and orchestrated the Étude to become the sixth in his cycle of symphonic Poems.


Sheet Music Downloads:

Title Key Published Type Level
Preludio no 1C Major 1851 Study 8+
Etude in A Minor no 2A Minor 1851 Study 8+
Paysage no 3F Major 1851 Study 8+
Mazeppa no 4D Minor 1851 Study 8+
Feux Follets no 5B-flat Major 1851 Study 8+
Vision no 6G Minor 1851 Study 8+
Eroica no 7E-flat Major 1851 Study 8+
Wild Hunt no 8C Minor 1851 Study 8+
Ricordanza no 9A-flat Major 1851 Study 8+
Etude in F Minor no 10F Minor 1851 Study 8+
Harmonies du Soir no 11D-flat Major 1851 Study 8+
Chasse-Neige no 12B-flat Minor 1851 Study 8+



Posts in the piano forum about Transcendental Etudes by Liszt:

xx etudes op. 10&25
June 05, 2007, 09:32:24 AM by christiaan

If you have mastered Chopin`s Etude op. 25 no. 1,  what is the next etude to start with? Please help. Any of the op. 10 or 25 are welkom.

O, and what is a good Liszt Transendental Etude to start with?

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xx Difficulty of Various Etudes
August 27, 2006, 10:01:40 AM by cloches_de_geneve

I would like to pick a couple of those and would appreciate any comments on these pieces by members that played them. Thanks.

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cheesy liszt
May 30, 2006, 04:53:47 PM by elevateme

just a bit of fun Smiley

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xx Etudes
February 16, 2006, 01:11:11 AM by chopinfan_22

I have a question about Liszt's Etudes. Now I know some of them are completely off the wall... but to any of you that have played/taught them, how helpful are they? I was thinking of trying his first Trascandental Etude (in C). It's only two pages... the last page being arpeggios. I just wanted to gather an opinion. Thanks.

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