Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, {René Duchâble}

Franz Liszt (Hungarian Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc ((October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary. Please support my channel: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, (1835-56) Dedication: Henry Charles Litolff 1. Allegro maestoso (0:00) 2. Quasi adagio (5:25) 3. Allegretto vivace - Allegro animato (10:19) 4. Allegro marziale animato (14:22) François-René Duchâble and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by James Conlon The main themes of Liszt’s first piano concerto are written in a sketchbook dated 1830, when Liszt was nineteen years old. He seems to have completed the work in 1849, yet made further adjustments in 1853. It was first performed at Weimar in 1855, with the composer at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. Liszt made yet more changes before publication in 1856. Béla Bartók described it as “the first perfect realisation of cyclic sonata form, with common themes being treated on the variation principle“. Description by Robert Cummings [-] The genesis of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major dates to 1830, when the composer sketched out the main theme in a notebook. It wasn’t until the 1840s, however, that Liszt actually commenced work on the concerto. As a neophyte in the art of orchestration -- his output to that point consisted almost entirely of keyboard music -- Liszt enlisted the assistance of his pupil Joachim Raff in providing the work an instrumental skin. Liszt completed the concerto in 1849 but made a number of revisions over the next several years. The final version of the work dates from 1856. First Performance: 1855-02-17 Weimar: Franz Liszt (piano solo); Hector Berlioz (conductor) Publisher info: Franz Liszt: Musikalische Werke. Serie I, Band 13. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1914. Plate F.L. 27. Reprinted: Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(after 1990). (#26683) Copyright: Public Domain