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Title of the work

Ce qu´on entend sur la montagne (S.95) / What One Hears on the Mountains (S.95)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Was man auf dem Berge Hört (S.95) / Amit a hegyen hallani (S.95)
Foreign language / English title
Ce qu´on entend sur la montagne (S.95) / What One Hears on the Mountains (S.95)
Subtitle
Poéme Symphonique, No. 1 / Symphonic Poem, No. 1
Dedication
To Princess Carolyna von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Year of composition
1854
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., cl.b., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - arpa - 3 timp., perc. (tam-tam., ptti., gr.c.) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
29 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
February 1850, Duke´s Palace, Weimar, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.) (First version)
1853, Duke´s Palace, Weimar, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.) (Second version)
7 January 1857, Hoftheater, Weimar, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.) (Final version)
Publisher / Source
Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig © 1857
Available here!
Recordings
Naxos CD 8.557846, 2005 - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halász (cond.)
Hungaroton HCD 12677-81, 1994 - Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Árpád Joó (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1848 - 1854

Based on the same titled Poem by Victor Hugo