Liszt F. Concsolations. Liebestraume

The “Compozitor Publishing House • St Petersburg” offers to your attention the publication of two piano cycles by Franz Liszt with the performing edition of Emil von Sauer. Six small lyrical pieces, called “Consolations” and three nocturnes “Love Dreams” (“Liebestraume”) — transcriptions of his own lyrical romances — were composed in 1849–1850, during the period of his rising passion for Carolina Witgenstein. 

The first two nocturnes — “High Love” (“Hohe Liebe”) and “Blissful Death” (“Seliger Tod”) are anticipated with epigraphs from the poems by Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), the German romanticist, whose lyrics inspired many composers due to their candour and musicianship. The nocturne “Oh, Love” (“O Liebe”) is preceded by the verses of Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876), one more representative of the German romanticism, so much valued by the Russian poets for his freedom-loving “fiery poems” (N. Leskov).

This very publication induces the original stanzas by Uhland and Freiligrath together with the translations to the Russian language (made by Lazar Ardov) and the English language (made by Asya Ardova).