Liszt – transcriptions of Bach’s music

Transcriptions and paraphrases played an important part in shaping Liszt´s role as leading musical figure of his generation.
He transcribed both famous and less well known vocal and orchestral works of others in order to promote the music, and in order to challenge himself to enrich the field of piano techniques.

Liszt’s piano transcriptions of a selection of Bach’s organ works are quite simple and straightforward. They became the classic models for all the future works in this genre.

We have now added sheet music to five transcriptions of the Preludes and Fugues for organ by Bach (BWV 544, 545, 546, 547, 548), and we now cover all the transcriptions that Liszt made of Bach’s music.

Liszt: Piano Transcriptions