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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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