Description
etween 1837-39, Liszt traveled through Italy with Marie d'Agoult. Similar to the first volume of the Années de Pèlerinage, Schweiz (1835/36), he again recorded his travel impressions in musical form. Liszt devoted these pieces to subjects from literature (Petrarca, Dante) and the visual arts (Raffael, Michelangelo).
Years later, in 1858, Liszt reworked and published these pieces as Années de Pèlerinage, Zweites Jahr, Italien. The central work in this volume is the large-scale, so-called Dante Sonata (Après une Lecture de Dante), which is also available as a single edition (HN 981). Additionally, the Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, published separately as HN 982, is equally popular.
In 1861, Liszt published an appendix to Volume II, titled Venezia e Napoli, which is available as a separate edition (HN 985).
