Franz Liszt
Consolation: Lento placido
in D-flat Major, S . 172 No. 3

This dreamy, sophisticated work may have been written as Liszt's tribute to Chopin. The smooth broken-chord accompaniment and the song-like narrative are reminiscent of the latter's Nocturnes.

ID: 1691

Franz Liszt - Consolations S. 172:

3. Consolation: Lento placido

Key: D-flat Major
Year: 1850

Level: 7
Period: Early Romantic

Consolation: Lento placido S . 172 No. 3 in D-flat Major by Liszt piano sheet music

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Nocturnal Tribute

Liszt composed two versions of the “Consolations,” the first between 1844 and 1849 and the second within a year of the first’s completion. In the second version he replaced no. 3, a precursor to the first Hungarian Rhapsody, with a piece in the style of a Nocturne by Chopin, who had died the year before. Shortly before his death, Liszt re-scored this piece to include markings for Steinway’s new sostenuto pedal.

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Liszt: Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major (published in 1850) . DOWNLOAD piano sheet music from Piano Street digital sheet music library.
Consolation in D-flat Major No. 3 by the composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). This piano piece was composed in 1850 and is part of Liszt's Consolations.

Franz Liszt Consolation: Lento placido in D-flat Major, S . 172 No. 3