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This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

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Title of the work

Der blinde Sänger (S.350) / The Blind Singer (S.350)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Der blinde Sänger (S.350) / A vak énekes (S.350)
Foreign language / English title
Der blinde Sänger (S.350) / The Blind Singer (S.350)
Subtitle
Ballad by Lev Tolstoy, with melodramathic musical accompaniment by Ferenc liszt
Year of composition
1877
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
narrator, pf.
Duration
13 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Text
TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolayevich
Language
Russian / German
Publisher / Source
Edition W. Bessel & Co., St. Petersburg © (1877) Plate 1059.
Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig © 1922. Plate F.L. VII 107
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Recordings
Hyperion CDA67045, 1995 - Yuri Stepanov (narrator), Leslie Howard (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1875 - 1877

Arranged for Solo Piano in 1877

See arranged version:
The Blind Singer (S.546)