Review (PDF) Complete Etudes For Solo Piano, Series I: Including The Transcendental Etudes (Dover Music For Piano)
Liszt's reputation as perhaps the greatest pianist of all time is powerfully supported by his dazzling body of work for solo piano. The undiminished popularity of his etudes with pianists and audiences alike have made them among the most performed and recorded works for solo piano in the romantic repertoire.This superbly produced yet inexpensive two-volume edition presents all of Liszt's etudes as edited by the great pianist, composer, and musical scholar Ferruccio Busoni for the Franz Liszt Society and published by Breitkopf and Härtel in Leipzig in 1910–11.This first volume, Series I, includes many of Liszt's most inspired piano works. The Etude en 12 Exercises and the 12 Grandes Etudes can both be regarded as early versions of the Etudes d' Exécution Transcendante (Transcendental Etudes). Each set is a highly successful work in its own terms, and both generally surpass the famous final version in difficulty. The separate "Mazeppa" is yet another working of one of the etudes from these sets. The individual etudes range dramatically in style from the delicate refinement of "Feux Follets" to the startling bravura of "Wilde Jagd" (both from the Transcendental Etudes). Each will bring to pianists and their listeners a moving encounter with the genius of this towering musical personality.
Series: Dover Music for Piano (Book 1)
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (January 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486258157
ISBN-13: 978-0486258157
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 0.6 x 11.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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This is a great book for any virtuoso pianist. Including the first and second versions of the transcendental etudes (Etudes en Douze Excercises, and Douze Grandes Etudes), which you will not find in any other book, it includes 36 songs on over 250 pages. It is an excellent deal, and along with its partner, the second volume, they are a valuable addition to your repertoire.
I waited for the arrival of this book with great anticipation and was disappointed. The books are small, so the pages are small, with smaller font ... which makes it hard to read and decipher, especially for those students learning these pieces for the first time.I would have loved to have found the Henle Urtext version or the Alfred Masterwork publication of this collection.
This edition is good for the price. It has all the Transcendental Etudes, and Paganini Etudes & Concert Etudes in two volumes. The first has a large number of studies, which is good, but I personally would not use it as a study book but as consultation, because it is not very spacious, has very little fingering, and printing could be better. As I said above is that, my personal purpose was to use it as a reference book, that's why I'm happy with this book, and even more for the price I paid for it. If you want a book of "Transcendental Etudes" to study, I suggest you get a better book edition.
Good binding, clear printing, and of course, it's complete......but who can actually PLAY it ): ?A lot of his earlier works are very approachable, but the Transcendental Etudes aren't recognised as the most difficult piano pieces ever written for no reason!
This book is too thick to lay open flat on the piano. It shouldn't have been a flat paperback binding with this thickness. Otherwise, great quality.
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