Description
The third piece from Liszt’s Grandes Études de Paganini presents an especially formidable technical challenge to performers. Based on the finale movement of Paganini’s Violin Concerto in B minor, La campanella was dedicated to Clara Schumann. Liszt first had the opportunity to witness the famous violin virtuoso’s playing at a concert in Paris in 1832, and it inspired the young Liszt to obsessively pursue his own music through practice and intensive study of literature and arts. As a result, Liszt composed his six „transcendent” études that made up the piano cycle Études d’exécution transcendante d’aprés Paganini; for a time, Liszt himself was the only one capable of performing them. In addition to the final version of the third étude, the present edition includes its earlier version in the appendix.