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Études d´exécution transcendante d´après Paganini (S.140)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Études d´exécution transcendante d´après Paganini (S.140)
Foreign language / English title
Études d´exécution transcendante d´après Paganini (S.140)
Dedication
To Clara Schumann
Year of composition
1840
Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
pf.
Duration
23 min
Movements, parts
1. Trémolo, Preludio - Andante
2. Octave - Andante
3. Campanella - Allegro moderato
4. Arpeggio - Andante quasi allegretto (Version I and II)
5. La Chasse - Allegretto
6. Tema con Variazioni - Presto (a Capriccio)
Publisher / Source
Edition Schonenberger, Paris © 1840
Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig © 1911, F.L. 37
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Recordings
Philips Classics CD E4563392, 1997 - Nikita Magaloff (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1838 - 1840, revised: 1851

Based on "24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op.1" by Niccolò Paganini

See also revised version:
Grandes études de Paganini (S.141)