"Liszt wrote two major works on Spanish themes during his Iberian travels in 1844-5. Neither was published in his lifetime. The Grosse Concert-Phantasie über spanische Weisen first appeared shortly after Liszt’s death. He had prepared it for publication, and dedicated it to his biographer Lina Ramann. (It was reprinted in the 1997 Liszt Society Journal.) A later work based on material collected and/or worked-on in the 1840s is the celebrated Rapsodie espagnole, and this appeared as late as 1867. The Romancero espagnol (Spanish Song-Book), whose title and date we know from Liszt’s correspondence, was intended to be published in 1847 with a proposed dedication to Queen Isabella II of Spain, but for some reason the publication never took place. From the correspondence we can see that Liszt clearly considered the work complete, although there is one small lacuna and, as often with Liszt until the last moment, the ending is not fully written-out. The pages of the MS are not numbered, and are not bound together. An archivist at the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, presumably Peter Raabe, has placed a large question-mark at the top of what is surely the beginning of the work, but has then written ‘Spanische Rhapsodie’ at the top of the page where the final jota begins (the theme is the same as that in the Rapsodie espagnole, but in a different key, and very differently treated), and has altered the order of the pages, placing this section at the beginning-a musical impossibility, since this section recalls earlier material in the peroration. Careful reshuffling of the pages gives us a piece in three clear sections, each based on a different theme. There is an introduction, setting up the dichotomy between the tonalities of E major and C major-this material will be recalled towards the end of the work-then an elaborately varied fandango, largely in C major, but straying as far afield as A flat. The central section is a set of free variations on an imposing, stately theme in E minor, of title unknown, and the finale, based on the Jota aragonesa, takes us to E major with excursions into C major. Earlier themes are recalled and combined, especially in an alarmingly difficult passage in two time-signatures at once. The work was published for the first time in the Liszt Society Journal in 2009." (Hyperion)
This .mid file is a special one - a collaborative project! (sadly not by me and PencilMate lol).I transcribed all notes into the .mid file months ago, but there were so many mistakes so i decided to remake it, this time with helps from my close friends :D
tastyBlackTiles helped me to edit the general tempo and some specific parts, and Andrei Cristian Anghel helped me with some wrong keys and tempos, as he is a pretty professional in music, moreover he provided a scan of the score so that i can make the .mid file. Be sure to check their channels:
tastyBlackTiles's channel (he uploads Synthesia videos of songs and other contents): / @tastyforreal
Andrei Anghel Cristian's channel (he uploads scored videos of Liszt's pieces): / @andreianghelliszt
Big thanks to them!
Our Discord server: / discord
29 сен 2024
