Rigoletto – Concert Paraphrase
Piano
by Franz Liszt
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Piano solo (Piano solo) - Henle Level 9

SKU: HL.51480978

Piano. Composed by Franz Liszt. Edited by Ullrich Scheideler. Arranged by Marc-Andre Hamelin. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. 28 pages. G. Henle #HN978. Published by G. Henle (HL.51480978).

ISBN 9790201809786. UPC: 884088599188. 9.25x12.25x0.097 inches.

Liszt drew on three themes from Verdi's “Rigoletto” in this glittering virtuoso work; its climax is the finale with the theme in the quartet from Act III “Bella figlia dell'amore.” If one ignores the fact that at this point in the opera the betrayal of Gilda's love is made known, the work offers no sign that it was written at a time of deep depression: Liszt's hope of legally marrying Princess von Sayn-Wittgenstein was slowly disappearing. Maybe Liszt's opera paraphrases are therefore to be understood as memories of happier times in Weimar.

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