A Faust Symphony in three character pictures (German: Eine Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterbildern), S.108, or simply the "Faust Symphony", is a choral symphony written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama, Faust. The symphony was premiered in Weimar on 5 September 1857, for the inauguration of the Goethe–Schiller Monument there.
A FaustSymphony in three character pictures (German: Eine Faust-Symphonie in drei Charakterbildern), S.108, or simply the "FaustSymphony", is a choral...
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet...
closet drama Faust (1808), Hector Berlioz's musical composition La damnation de Faust (premiered 1846), and Franz Liszt's FaustSymphony of 1857. Because...
5). An earlier example may be found at the opening of Franz Liszt's FaustSymphony, where a sequence of augmented triads unfolds as arpeggios: However...
and Faustsymphonies are often recorded together. In October 1856, Liszt visited Richard Wagner in Zürich and performed his Faust and Dante symphonies on...
La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra...
Juliette and part of La damnation de Faust, later dedicated to Liszt (in return, Liszt dedicated his FaustSymphony to Berlioz). The orchestration of Berlioz...
33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847) Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853) Franz Liszt's FaustSymphony (1854–57) and Mephisto...
and 1840, Wagner intended it to be the first movement of a FaustSymphony based on the Faust legend and play by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
(also called Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major), Op. 52, by Felix Mendelssohn (1840) FaustSymphony, by Franz Liszt (1854) Dante Symphony, by Franz Liszt...
one of its most celebrated early appearances in Franz Liszt's FaustSymphony (Eine Faust Symphonie). Another famous use of the augmented scale (in jazz)...
Beethoven". Franz Liszt used a twelve-tone row in the opening of his FaustSymphony. Hans Keller claims that Schoenberg was aware of this serial practice...
Beethoven declared that a "Faust" Symphony would be the greatest thing for art. Liszt and Mahler both created symphonies in whole or in large part inspired...
orchestral Eine Faust-Ouvertüre (1855, second version; 1840, first version originally conceived as the first movement to a FaustSymphony) 13 orchestral...
alongside the Symphonie fantastique of Berlioz, Liszt's FaustSymphony and the Manfred Symphony of Tchaikovsky". Richard Strauss was a pupil of Hans von...
Ideale based on a work by Friedrich von Schiller FaustSymphony, after the epic work by Goethe Dante Symphony, after Dante's Divine Comedy The Hope (2001)...
choral symphonies of Franz Liszt. Both the Faust and Dante symphonies were conceived as purely instrumental works and only later became choral symphonies. However...
Haas (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Liszt: A FaustSymphony Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance André Previn...
Fragmentation (music) FaustSymphony Piano Sonata (Liszt) Symphonic Poems (Liszt) Cooper, Martin, ed. Gerald Abraham, "The Symphonies", Music of Tchaikovsky...
conductor (London) 1986 Franz Liszt: A FaustSymphony – Sir Georg Solti, conductor (London) 1987 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 – Sir...
editions, the first six of Liszt's symphonic poems were published and the FaustSymphony premiered under Liszt's baton. Hanslick revised his text to mention...