Symphonic Poem No.3 "Les préludes" (for solo piano) - Ernst Gernot Klussmann/Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt: Les préludes [d’après Lamartine] – Poème Symphonique No.3 (transcribed for solo piano by Ernst Gernot Klussmann). Les préludes ("Preludes" or "The Beginnings"), S.97, is the third of Franz Liszt's thirteen symphonic poems. The music was composed between 1845 and 1854, and began as an overture to Liszt's choral cycle Les quatre élémens (The Four Elements), then revised as a stand-alone concert overture, with a new title referring to a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine. Its premiere was on 23 February 1854, conducted by Liszt himself. The score was published in 1856 by Breitkopf & Härtel. Les préludes is the earliest example of an orchestral work entitled "Symphonic Poem" (German: Symphonische Dichtung or French: Poème symphonique). Les préludes is the final revision of an overture initially written for a choral cycle Les quatre éléments (The Four Elements, 1844–48), on 4 poems by the French author Joseph Autran: La Terre (The Earth), Les Aquilons (The north Winds), Les Flots (The Waves), Les Astres (The Stars). The chorus Les Aquilons was composed and created in a version for male chorus with 2 pianos accompaniment in Marseille in 1844, and the first sketches of the Ouverture des quatre élémens date from 1845, during Liszt's tour through Spain and Portugal. A manuscript of the overture from 1849 to 1850 shows that the work had by then reached its almost definitive structure and thematic content. After being partially orchestrated, the choral cycle project was abandoned. The overture was revised in 1853–54 as a stand-alone piece, with a new title inspired by an ode by the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine, Les préludes. Both the title and the reference to Lamartine's poem as a suggestion for a programme were added only after the work was almost complete. Contrary to an idea that is still sometimes widespread today, the work was neither written nor even revised after Lamartine: there were no addition of new themes, no addition or suppression or changes in the order of episodes, not even changes of the tonal structure within the episodes, between the last stage of the manuscript of the Ouverture des quatre élémens, and the final revision of 1853-54 under the title Les préludes. The evidence provided in 1986 by musicologist Andrew Bonner has since been agreed by, among others, two musicologists who have devoted book-length studies to Liszt's symphonic poems, Keith T. Johns and Joanne Cormac. Les préludes is written for a large orchestra of strings, woodwind, brass (including tuba and bass trombone), harp and a variety of percussion instruments (timpani, side drum, bass drum and cymbals). To realize the orchestration, Liszt was helped by two composers: first by Joachim Raff for the manuscripts of 1849–50, then by Hans von Bronsart for the revision in 1853-54 and for minor corrections before publication by Breitkopf in 1856. Although the orchestration was 'four-handed', studies on the Raff-Liszt collaboration on the Prometheus Overture, contemporary with the progress of Les quatre élémens, have revealed that Liszt drew up very detailed sketches, rejected or modified almost all of Raff's proposals, and sought in particular to achieve more transparent textures and more subtle variations in orchestral density. (Wikipedia) Low-effort MIDI file... This version by the German composer from the late Romanticism Ernst Gernot Klussmann (1901-1975) is literally Stradal's transcription but much simplified, with some corrections (14:13, 15:45) to match the final version of the original orchestral symphonic poem more closely, somewhat resembling Tausig's version. Also it's been exactly one year since the upload of the Stradal video XD. Karl Klauser's transcription (revised by Liszt, S.511a):    • Symphonic Poem No.3 "Les Préludes" (piano ...   Carl Tausig's transcription:    • Symphonic Poem No.3 "Les Préludes" (piano ...   August Stradal's transcription:    • Symphonic Poem No.3 "Les préludes" (for so...   Our Discord Server:   / discord