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Title of the work

Des toten Dichters Liebe (S.349) / The Dead Poet´s Love (S.349)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
A holt költő szerelme (S.349)
Foreign language / English title
Des toten Dichters Liebe (S.349) / The Dead Poet´s Love (S.349)
Subtitle
"The Grove resounds with the Nightingale´s Song"
Year of composition
1874
Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
narrator, pf.
Duration
13 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Text
JÓKAI, Mór
Language
Hungarian / German
Premiere information
16 March 1874, Budapest
Publisher / Source
Edition Taborszky & Parsch, Budapest 1874, T&P 406

Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1922, F.L. VII 106
Available here!
Recordings
Hyperion Records 1996, CDA67045 - Leslie Howard (pf.), Sándor Éles (narrator)
Remarks, other info
Based on the text by Mór Jókai

German translation by Adolf Dux

Revised for Solo Piano, as:
To the Memory of Petőfi (S.195)