Transcriptions by Franz Liszt
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This article lists the various treatments given by Franz Liszt to the works of almost 100 other composers.
These treatments included transcriptions for other instruments (predominantly solo piano), arrangements, orchestrations, fantaisies, reminiscences, paraphrases, illustrations, variations, and editions.
Liszt also extensively treated his own works in a similar manner, but these are not tallied here—neither are his treatments of national (or "folk") melodies whose composers are unknown, nor other anonymous works.
In most cases, Liszt arranged only one or two pieces by a composer, but he delved more deeply into the works of Bach, Beethoven, Bellini, Berlioz, Chopin, Donizetti, Gounod, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Wagner, and Weber.
The earliest-born composer whose works Liszt dealt with was Orlande de Lassus (born c. 1532). Jacques Arcadelt was born earlier (c. 1507), but Liszt's treatment was not of Arcadelt's original work, rather of a setting by Pierre-Louis Dietsch loosely based on Arcadelt. The last composer to die whose works Liszt dealt with was Géza Zichy (1849–1924).
Kornél Ábrányi
Gregorio Allegri
Alexander Alyabyev
Note: The Mazurka pour piano composée par un amateur de St. Pétersbourg, paraphrasée par F. L. (S.384) was based on a mazurka that has often been misattributed to Alyabyev, but was in fact written by Mikhail Vielgorsky.
Jacques Arcadelt
Thomas Arne
Daniel Auber
Johann Sebastian Bach
Giuseppe Baini
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vincenzo Bellini
Hector Berlioz
Louise Bertin
János Bihari
Giovanni Bononcini
Alexander Borodin
René de Galard de Béarn, Marquis de Brassac
Pyotr Bulakhov
Hans von Bülow
Frédéric Chopin
August Conradi
Peter Cornelius
Guillaume Louis Cottrau
César Cui
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Ferdinand David
Léo Delibes
Josef Dessauer
Anton Diabelli
Pierre-Louis Dietsch
Gaetano Donizetti
Giuseppe Donizetti
Felix Draeseke
Béni Egressy and Ferenc Erkel
Ferenc Erkel
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
László Fáy
Leó Festetics
John Field
Robert Franz
Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg
Manuel García
Ludmilla Gizycka-Zámoyská
Mikhail Glinka
Adalbert von Goldschmidt
Charles Gounod
Fromental Halévy
George Frideric Handel
Johann von Herbeck
Ferdinand Huber
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Ernest Knop
Francis Korbay
Josef Krov
Charles Philippe Lafont
Eduard Lassen
Orlande de Lassus
Otto Lessmann
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
Jules Massenet
Felix Mendelssohn
Saverio Mercadante
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Mihály Mosonyi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Otto Nicolai
Giovanni Pacini
Niccolò Paganini
Luigi Pantaleoni
Giovanni Battista Perucchini
F. Pezzini
Joachim Raff
Alexander Ritter
Salvator Rosa (attrib.)
Gioachino Rossini
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Anton Rubinstein
Camille Saint-Saëns
Franz Schubert
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Bedřich Smetana
Mariano Soriano
Louis Spohr
Gaspare Spontini
Imre Széchényi
Karl Tausig
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pier Adolfo Tirindelli
János Végh
Giuseppe Verdi
Mikhail Vielgorsky
Note: Vielgorski is also seen as Count Michael Wielhorski.
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