Fantasie Über Themen Aus Mozarts Figaro Und Don Giovanni, Ference Liszt. Piano

Liszt Ferenc: Fantasie
über Themen aus Mozarts Figaro und Don Giovanni - First Edition
Op. post.

Completed and edited by Howard, Leslie
Setting: Piano
Series: Rarities and First Editions by Liszt
Period: Romantic
Language: Hungarian, English, German
Length: 52 pages
Format: 23 x 30,2 cm (Bach)
Weight: 0.22 kg
Published: February 1997
Publisher: Editio Musica Budapest Zenemukiadó

Item number: 14135
ISMN: 9790080141359

Ferenc Liszt composed his Fantasy on themes from Mozart's two masterly operas Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni by the end of 1842 or the beginning of January 1843 at the latest on the evidence that he played the piece in Berlin on 11th January 1843. The piece was not quite finished in manuscript, but the lacunae-the end of a brief transition in the closing section (bars 574-576) and the end of the work (bars 602-616)-are so insignificant that he probably tried out an improvised solution in performance. For reasons which have not come down to us Liszt never finished the manuscript and he does not seem to have played the work again.