Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-5 Transcribed for Solo Piano William Morrow and Company

William Morrow and Company

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and numerous other figures are incorporated here in inventive configurations

Robert Schumann essays

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-5 Transcribed for Solo Piano William Morrow and CompanyIn 1843, Franz Liszt made the handsome gesture of absorbing the costs for a monument to Beethoven in Bonn. The spiritual affinity he felt for Beethoven also moved this great piano virtuoso to pay an even finer tribute, a superlative set of piano transcriptions of the master's nine symphonies. This volume contains the first five of these works, reproduced from the original plates authorized by Liszt himself. Liszt's brilliant transcriptions enabled