This volume contains works published for the first time from the composer’s surviving manuscripts, as well as original versions of works that were published during Liszt’s lifetime, but later reworked. Of the earlier versions connected with Years of Pilgrimage, 2nd Year, Italy, the most noteworthy are the two completed versions of the Dante sonata, which are now appearing in print for the first time. Further important compositions belonging to the Italy cycle are the Petrarch sonnets. Of additional significance is the Freischütz fantasia, a fine example of the type of opera fantasia Liszt developed at the beginning of the 1840s, and published here for the first time.

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