Gaudeamus Igitur - Paraphrase (All 2 Versions), S.240 - Franz Liszt (Sheet Music)

Описание: Franz Liszt: Gaudeamus Igitur - Paraphrase, Chanson des Étudiants (All 2 Versions), S.240
Performance by/ Interpretado por: Leslie Howard

TIMESTAMPS:
0:07 - Gaudeamus Igitur - Chanson des Étudiants - Paraphrase Pour Piano (1st Version), S.240i
9:18 - Gaudeamus Igitur - Paraphrase [Pour Piano] (2nd Version), S.240ii

"The student song Gaudeamus igitur has long been associated with graduations and other academic festivals, and Liszt also used it in the music for the dramatic dialogue Vor hundert Jahren (mistakenly entered in most Liszt catalogues as a melodrama, but, in fact, a theatrical work) as well as in the present pieces. The Gaudeamus igitur—Paraphrase (or Gaudeamus! Chanson des étudiants as the Schlesinger edition gives the title) was composed for we know not what occasion, but is one of Liszt’s typically extrovert paraphrases on such material and, although quite entertaining in its dare-devilry, is scarcely a masterpiece—indeed, the extra melodic appendage which the theme acquires in midstream is numbingly banal, but fortunately funny. There is a certain amount of imagination in between a very clumping fugato and bold Hungarianisms, along with treacherous double-note glissandi and other tricks of the virtuoso’s trade. The second version of Gaudeamus igitur – Paraphrase was prepared by Liszt for publication and survives in a fair copy in a copyist's hand with corrections and title-page in Liszt's hand. Unlike the first version, the revision was never published (and it is not to be confused with the later Gaudeamus igitur – Humoreske). It remains an amusing, if entirely unimportant, pièce d'occasion."
(Notes by Leslie Howard)