Liszt F. Twelve Etudes of Transcendental Execution for Piano

The initial sketches of this mostly popular opus by Liszt refer to 1826. It came that time, when the cycle «Etudes for piano in the form of 48 exercises» was conceived by the young gifted man mastering simultaneously composition and piano skill. The fifteen years old boy gave birth to the future material for «Twelve Etudes of Transcendental Execution». The first twelve etudes among those 48 ones were written in the kind of a united cycle along flat tonalities — C major, A minor, F major, D minor, B flat major, G minor, F minor, D flat major, B flat minor.

Contents:

1.  Prelude (Music text example)
2.  Etude A-minor
3.  Landscape
4.  Mazepa
5.  Will-o'-the-Wisps
6.  Spectre
7.  Heroic
8.  Wild Hunt (Music text example)
9.  Reminiscence
10. Etude F minor
11. Evening Harmonies (Music text example)
12. Blizzard