Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-5 Transcribed for Solo Piano a useful list of references

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Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-5 Transcribed for Solo Piano a useful list of referencesIn 1843, Franz Liszt made the handsome gesture of absorbing the costs for a monument to Beethoven in Bonn. The spiritual affinity he felt for Beethoven also moved this great piano virtuoso to pay an even finer tribute, a superlative set of piano transcriptions of the master's nine symphonies. This volume contains the first five of these works, reproduced from the original plates authorized by Liszt himself. Liszt's brilliant transcriptions enabled