Franz Liszt
Soirées de Vienne
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About Franz Liszt's Soirées de Vienne

These waltzes belong to the numerous arrangements Liszt made of works by Schubert. Many of these arrangements helped substantially to bring Schubert’s name to the general public, and Soirées de Vienne are probably among the most successful things of this kind which Liszt ever did.
The first eight are free arrangements of two or more dance melodies, made coherent by introductory and linking passages. However, the ninth in the series is a set of six variations on a single waltz – the Trauerwalzer, Op.9 No.2 – the same waltz that inspired Schumann to the first movement of his Carnaval.