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Title of the work

Heldenklänge (S.102) / Heroic Elegy (S.102)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Héroide funébre (S.102) / Hősi sirató (S.102)
Foreign language / English title
Heldenklänge (S.102) / Heroic Elegy (S.102)
Subtitle
Symphonische Dichtung, No. 8 / Symphonic Poem, No. 8
Dedication
To Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Year of composition
1850
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., c.ing., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 2 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - 4 timp., perc. (2 bell, tmb.picc., tam-tam, ptto., gr.c.) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
24 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
10 November 1857, Brestov, Slovak Republic; Moritz Schön (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edition Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig © 1857
Available here!
Recordings
HCD 12677-81, 1994 - Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Árpád Joó (cond.)
EMI Records, 1995 - Gewandshaus Orchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1849 - 1850, revised: 1856

Based on the 1830 sketches of the unfinished "Symphonie révolutionnaire"