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Liszt, Franz
Description
- Liszt, Franz
- Extensively revised scribal manuscript of Liszt's piano transcription of J.S. Bach's organ Fantasie (Praeludium) in G minor BWV 542, signed and dated ("F. Liszt Weymar 54"), with many autograph annotations and remarks throughout, addressed to Hans von Bülow
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3 pages, folio (c.34 x 26cm), 20-stave paper, Weimar, 1854, small tears and extensive creasing to the leading edges, one tear slightly affecting the music, but without loss
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Catalogue Note
The "Praeludium von Bach" appears to have been transcribed separately from, and about a decade earlier, than the fugue, and perhaps expressly for his pupil and future son-in-law, Hans von Bülow (1830-1894). Liszt reveals the closeness between master pupil, referring to their "gallows humour", his school-masterly character and meanness, and calls for for one of Bülow's exquisite trills resembling a long wig. Bülow became one of the leading pianists in Germany and, in 1857, married Liszt's daughter Cosima, whom he was later to lose to Wagner. Whilst Kapellmeister in Munich from 1855 to 1869, he conducted the premieres of Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger. J.S. Bach's Fantasie (Präludium) dates from c.1720 and was first published in 1833, edited by A.B. Marx.
For a 10-page completely autograph manuscript by Liszt, please see lot 252.