Three Concert Études
collection of études composed by Franz Liszt
Three Concert Études (Trois études de concert), S.144, is a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845–49 and published in Paris as Trois caprices poétiques with the three individual titles as they are known today.
As the title indicates, they are intended not only for the acquisition of a better technique, but also for concert performance. Liszt was himself a virtuoso pianist and was able to easily play many complex patterns generally considered difficult. The Italian subtitles now associated with the études—Il lamento ("The Lament"), La leggierezza ("Lightness"), and Un sospiro ("A sigh")—first appeared in the French edition.
Étude No. 1, Il lamento
Il lamento is the first of the études. Written in A♭ major, it is among Liszt's longest pieces in the genre. It starts with a four-note lyrical melody which folds itself through the work, followed by a chromatic pattern which reappears again in the coda. Although the piece opens and ends in A♭ major, it shifts throughout its three parts to many other keys, A, G, D♯, F♯ and B among them.
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