Description
The third piece from Liszts Grandes Études de Paganini<\/i> presents an especially formidable technical challenge to performers. Based on the finale movement of Paganinis Violin Concerto in B minor, La campanella<\/i> was dedicated to Clara Schumann. Liszt first had the opportunity to witness the famous violin virtuosos playing at a concert in Paris in 1832, and it inspired the young Liszt to obsessively pursue his own music through practice and intensive study of literature and arts. As a result, Liszt composed his six transcendent études that made up the piano cycle Études dexécution transcendante daprés Paganini<\/i>; for a time, Liszt himself was the only one capable of performing them. In addition to the final version of the third étude, the present edition includes its earlier version in the appendix.
