Franz Liszt: Les Preludes Symphonic Poem - Hampton Orchestra Library edition

Les Préludes, the most popular of Liszt's thirteen symphonic poems, had its beginning in 1844, when the composer met the French poet Joseph Autran in Marseilles at a banquet in Liszt's honor. Within days, Liszt set one of Autran's poems, Les Aquilons ("The Winds"), for mixed chorus and piano; this work was performed by a local chorus almost before the ink had dried. Liszt set three further of Autran's poems – Les Flots ("The Oceans"), Les Astres ("The Stars") andLa Terre ("The Earth") while on tour in Spain the following year. In 1848, Liszt, having made a study of orchestration during the intervening years, tried his new-found skill in an overture called The Four Elements to preface the quartet of vocal compositions set to Autran's verses. Three years later (by which time the overture had been rechristened Symphonic Meditations), Autran sent Liszt his Poèmes de la Mer. Reading these verses recalled to Liszt his earlier pieces inspired by the poet and, referring to the overture and four choruses, he replied, "We will do something with it one fine day." Between 1852 and 1854, Liszt, indeed, did something with it — he completely recomposed the overture as a symphonic poem, and presented it in 1854 under the title Les Préludes.

The binding for this Hampton Orchestra Library edition is sewn. It is a little loose, but still intact.

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