Franz Liszt's treatments of the works of other composers

The following shows details of the various treatments given by Franz Liszt to the works of almost 100 other composers.

These treatments included transcriptions for other instruments (predominantly solo piano), arrangements, orchestrations, fantaisies, reminiscences, paraphrases, illustrations, variations, editions, etc.

Liszt also extensively treated his own works in similar ways, but these are not shown here. Neither are his treatments of national/folk melodies whose composers are not known, or other anonymous works.

In most cases, Liszt arranged just one or two pieces by a composer, but he went somewhat further with the works of Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Donizetti, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Verdi, Wagner and Weber.

The earliest-born composer whose works Liszt dealt with was Orlande de Lassus (born c. 1532). Jacques Arcadelt was born earlier (c. 1507), but Liszt's treatment was not of Arcadelt's original work, rather of a setting by Pierre-Louis Dietsch loosely based on Arcadelt.

The last composer to die whose works Liszt dealt with was Géza Zichy, who died in 1924.

Note: The Mazurka pour piano composée par un amateur de St. Pétersbourg, paraphrasée par F. L. (S.384) was based on a mazurka that has often been misattributed to Alyabyev, but was in fact written by Mikhail Vielgorski.

"Das Ringlein" leads without a break into "Bacchanal", and towards the end of the latter song, immediately before the coda, Liszt includes a short 6-bar reprise of the earlier song.

Note: Vielgorski is also seen as Count Michael Wielhorski.

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