Les Préludes
by Franz Liszt, arranged by Edwin Arthur Kraft, reprint of the original 1922 G Schirmer edition
This is a new printing of the original edition on sturdy, acid-free paper. 32 pages. All markings are original. Highest quality guaranteed. Size of music is 9.5" x 12.5". $15.00.
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Edwin Arthur Kraft window, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio; photo by William T van Pelt Franz Liszt, originally Liszt Ferencz in Hungarian, (1811-1886) studied composition with Antonio Salieri with influence from Berlioz and Paganini. He wrote “Les Preludes” in Weimar in 1847 based on themes from an earlier choral composition. It is a tone poem with the program of describing life as a series of musical preludes.
Edwin Arthur Kraft (1883-1962) was born in Connecticut and studied at Yale with Horatio Parker and in Paris with Guilmant and Widor. His transcription of this well-loved symphonic work calls for the resources of a large orchestral organ and was written during the year of the dedication of the V/150 E M Skinner (1922) in the Cleveland Public Auditorium where he served as municipal organist. Difficult. Compare with the Grasse transcription.