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Album d´un voyageur (S.156) / Album of a Wanderer (S.156)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Album d´un voyageur (S.156) / Egy utazó naplója (S.156)
Foreign language / English title
Album d´un voyageur (S.156) / Album of a Wanderer (S.156)
Dedication
To F. de Lamennais (No.1)
To F. Denis (No.2b)
To B. Liszt (No.3)
To E. Pivert de Senancour (No.4)
To V. Schoelcher (No.5)
To Mme Adolphe Pictet (No.10)
To M. Potocka (No.11)
To T. Walsh (No.12)
Year of composition
1838
Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
pf.
Duration
115 min
Movements, parts
Book I: Impressions et poésies

1. Lyon (S.156/1)
2a. Le lac de Wallenstadt (S.156/2)
2b. Au bord d´une source (S.156/3)
3. Les cloches de Genève (S.156/4)
4. Vallée d´Obermann (S.156/5)
5. La Chapelle de Guilaume Tell (S.156/6)
6. Psaume (de l´église à Genève) (S.156/7)

Book II: Fleurs mélodiques des Alpes

7a. Allegro (S.156/8)
7b. Lento—Allegro vivace (S.156/9)
7c. Allegro pastorale (S.156/10)
8a. Andante con sentimento. Allegretto (S.156/11)
8b. Andante molto espressivo (S.156/12)
8c. Allegro moderato (S.156/13)
9a. Allegretto (S.156/14)
9b. Allegretto (S.156/15)
9c. Andantino con molto sentimento (S.156/16)

Book III: Paraphrases

10. Ranz de vaches (Montée aux Alpes: Improvisata) (S.156/17)
11. Un soir dans les montagnes (Nocturne pastoral) (S.156/18)
12. Ranz de chèvres de F. Huber (Allegro finale) (S.156/19)
Publisher / Source
Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1916, Plate F.L. 44

Edition Richault, Paris 1841 (Only Book I, as "Prèmiere année - Suisse")

Edition Latte, Paris 1840 (Only Book II, as "2me année - Suisse")

Edition Knop, Basel 1836 (Only Book III, as "Schweizerische Alpenklänge")
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Recordings
Hyperion CDA66601/2, 1995 - Leslie Howard (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1835 - 1838

Book III composed 1835–1836 as "Trois Airs Suisses"