Description

In his virtuosic piano arrangement of Schumann's "Widmung," Franz Liszt transformed the intimate song into a dramatic declaration. The piece reaches a powerful climax at the phrase "Mein guter Geist, mein bess'res Ich," with chords to be played con somma passione. Liszt's autograph overlays the melody with the song text, but he changed the title to "Liebeslied." The first published edition, released in Leipzig in 1848, retained this heading, and the work is still known by both titles today. In collaboration with Liszt scholar Mária Eckhardt, we present this best-known of Liszt's Schumann arrangements in a reliable Henle Urtext quality edition.