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Eine Faust-Symphonie in Drei Charakterbildern (S.108) / Faust-Symphony in Three Pictures (S.108)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Eine Faust-Symphonie in Drei Charakterbildern (S.108) / Faust-szimfónia három képben (S.108)
Foreign language / English title
Eine Faust-Symphonie in Drei Charakterbildern (S.108) / Faust-Symphony in Three Pictures (S.108)
Subtitle
Nach Goethe / After Goethe
Dedication
To Hector Berlioz
Year of composition
1854
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
T. solo (Movement III. only) - male choir (T-B) (Movement III. only) - 3 fl. (III anche picc.), 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - arpa, org. - 4 timp., perc. (trg., ptti.) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
66 min
Movements, parts
1. Faust
2. Gretchen / Margit
3. Mephistopheles / Mefisztó
Text
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang
Language
German
Premiere information
5 September 1857, Hoftheater, Weimar, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edition Schuberth and Co. 1861
Edition Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig
Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD 12022, 1994 - György Korondi (T.), Hungarian Army Male Choir, Hungarian State Orchestra, János Ferencsik (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1853 - 1854, revised: 1857 (Closing Chorus)

Text of Movement III based on ´Corus mysticus´ from ´Faust´ by Goethe
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Franz Liszt: Faust Symphony Philips
Hungaroton
Radio Nederland