Author : Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner

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Author : Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner

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he renowned pianist Franz Liszt created numerous piano transcriptions of works by other composers, including Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a seminal 19th-century opera. Liszt's sensitive piano rendition of the opera's famous closing scene, "Mild und leise, wie er lächelt" ("Softly and gently, as he smiles"), is the source of the title "Isoldens Liebestod" (Isolde's Love-Death) - a title more familiar to us today than Wagner's own description of the music as Isolde's "transfiguration."

Author : Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner

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Franz Liszt arranged numerous works by other composers, particularly excerpts from the operas of his friend and son-in-law Richard Wagner, for his instrument. He turned to Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" twice, creating a brilliant piano transcription not only of Senta's ballad but also of the spinning chorus ("Summ und brumm, du gutes Rädchen") from Act 2. Liszt's "Spinning Song" transcription, brimming with virtuosic brilliance, has remained one of his most beloved works to this day.