Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Liszt - A Faust Symphony 50

Liszt - A Faust Symphony
When Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) gave a moving piano virtuoso of his life, the life of the composition from the 1847 self-immolation is a princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a female spirit. He spent one winter with the princess before the long-standing proposal to be accepted as a Wiemar where to go to court orchestra. It was in his time that his most famous compositions, many written for orchestra. Although Liszt was in total command of a piano, he knew little about orchestration and instrumentation. He is quick to learn, and become a master of the piano orchestra. He and his musicians hired for the work that knew how to orchestrate orchestrate the piano version. For example, they will then use to re-orchestrate the piece itself, using what was learned. A Faust Symphony Liszt was the first job without any help orchestrated, and even felt good enough to enter the skilled work of more than a piano sketch 'Gretchen' straight out of the movement of the entire score. The score was completed in 1854.
Faust mephistopheles for people with knowledge of his soul, and love for Gretchen, she attracted the legend of the Romantic era composers. Theme Berlioz, Wagner, an Overture, Gounod, and the most popular opera, a cantata / Opera wrote. Liszt's own a piece of early 1840, as Goethe's story was based on some ideas for the plot, he was still a traveling virtuoso.
Liszt is a thematic strategy as well as his other works, most of the conversion or transformation is used. Simply put, it's a theme or themes that appear from time to time, and the composition changed for dramatic effect, is basing a complete work. It is mainly used as the theme changes to a type of many composers before, but with the theme of freedom and change, there is no actual connection with it, but I have a life of his own.



For the full title of this work is the portrait of three characters (after Goethe) in the Faust Symphony. The three-letter 'Liszt in the picture Faust, Gretchen, and mephistopheles. The opening movement from Liszt Faust plotted using the 4 primary themes. Note the very opening of the first Faust theme, cellos and violas said. Last tonally ambiguous theme as well as using all of the chromatic scale of 12 notes. The theme of the night to a great amount of flexibility, lends, Gretchen where Gretchen was the theme of love and sincerity instead of warm and loving music, and mephistopheles theme active in the movement, where Liszt biting, phausta about the conventional story troll or bitter theme of the devil himself.
Playing in the telling of stories of Liszt, Faust or a combination of two characters. He was warm, loving side and a dark, satanic side, that the knowledge of his soul to the devil, some do not agree with the sale. In some ways, it can not be cut as well as autobiographical. Liszt himself was a very complex personality. Please do not crowd them, ruined the life of a sincere and deeply religious man that lived a long life of the Catholic church that is good food, drinks and cigars tasted the luxuries of a great artist on a small order of showboating for the excessively generous with many others that will be can be selfish and self-serving. Liszt's personality mixed up with the complexity of his rare talent and genius of his most interesting and original composers of the Romantic era.


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