Title: Franz Liszt's Style of the Arrangement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony for Piano
Abstract:At the first half of the romantic period , There was a new idealism known as program music which achieved the ability of description and pictorial to music . Leaders of this idealism :- 1 – Hector B...At the first half of the romantic period , There was a new idealism known as program music which achieved the ability of description and pictorial to music . Leaders of this idealism :- 1 – Hector Berlioz ( 1803 – 1869 ) 2 – Franz Liszt ( 1811 – 1886 ) 3 – Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) Here are some of Liszt's musical additions at this romantic stage :- 1 – created a new musical form known as symphonic poem . 2 – created a new style in music variation known as theme transformation . 3 – increased the skills of performance of piano music to the limit could not reached before neither by Beethoven nor Chopin . 4 – participated in the development of the chromatic harmony he had acquired from Chopin and he added more dissonance to express a dramatic modes and he modulated suddenly from a key to another with no relation . At his early days Franz Liszt had transcribed a lot of compositions for several musicians from his foregoes and his contemporaries . He cared about transcribe these compositions to present his proficiency at playing piano . These transcriptions are considered as abundance in his musical production . The problem of the research : - The ninth symphony of Beethoven is distinguished by a great artistic maturity , where as he added a new element which isn't used before : joining the human voices in the fourth movement . When we talk about the arrangement and it's utility for the presentation of the large musical compositions like orchestral pieces and operas to be easy to understand and make it as a pattern to be easy to analyze and discover it's beauty and structure , we can not ignore Liszt's efforts to transcribe this large amount of musical works with his proficiency which assist in famousness a lot of musical works and their composers .Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-03-05
Language: en
Type: article
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