Franz Liszt composed his transcription of the Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira for piano solo (S.181) in 1879 for his English piano student...
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Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, finale Franz Liszt: Chaconne from Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel Almira, S.181 (1879) Heinrich Reimann: Ciacona in...
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at the opera house in Hamburg. Almira is the sole example among Handel's many operas with no role for a castrato. Almira was a resounding success. The...
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Hungarian Romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was especially prolific, composing more than 700 works. A virtuoso pianist himself, much of his output...
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on Liszt as composer. One of the most striking of Liszt's late paraphrases is his setting of the Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira. This...
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setting of the Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira. This transcription was composed in 1879 for his English pupil Walter Bache, and it is the...
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fantaisies, reminiscences, paraphrases, illustrations, variations, and editions. Liszt also extensively treated his own works in a similar manner, but these...
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Walter Bache (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
had a lesson on it from Liszt". For Bache, Liszt wrote his concert arrangement of the Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's opera Almira in 1879. Before he...
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