Franz Liszt
Chanson d’amour (Dédicace) de «Myrthen» op. 25 (Robert Schumann)
Dans son arrangement virtuose pour piano de «Widmung» de Schumann («Du meine Seele, du mein Herz») («Toi mon âme, toi mon cœur»), Franz Liszt transforma ce lied intimiste en une confession dramatique dont la puissance sonore culmine sur «Mein guter Geist, mein bess’res Ich» (mon bon esprit, mon moi meilleur) avec des accords exécutés con somma passione. Dans le manuscrit autographe de Liszt, le texte du lied est également écrit au-dessus de la mélodie. La première édition parue en 1848 à Leipzig adopte fidèlement cette disposition, c’est pourquoi la même mélodie est aujourd’hui connue sous deux titres différents. Nous présentons cet arrangement de Liszt, le plus connu de tous, en collaboration avec la spécialiste de Liszt Mária Eckhardt, dans la qualité éprouvée du Henle-Urtext.
About the Authors
Annette Oppermann (Editeur)
Dr. Annette Oppermann, born in 1965, trained as a music dealer in Frankfurt am Main and studied historical and systematic musicology as well as modern German literature at Hamburg University.
From 1993 to 1996 she worked as an editor for Sony Classical International in Hamburg; from 1996 to 1999 she was a doctoral candidate in the postgraduate programme Textkritik at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, in January 2000 she earned her doctorate with a dissertation on “Musikalische Klassikerausgaben” (Hans-Joachim Marx, Hamburg). From 2000 to 2008 she worked as a research associate at the Joseph Haydn-Institut in Cologne, and was editor of the Oratorio “Die Schöpfung” in the Complete Edition of Joseph Haydn’s Works. Since February 2008 she has been an editor at G. Henle Publishers in Munich, with a particular focus on vocal music, chamber music and books.
Markus Bellheim (Doigtés)
Mária Eckhardt (Préface)
Mária Eckhardt, born in 1943 in Budapest, studied at the Budapest Academy of Music (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, today University of Music), and in 1966 she graduated with a diploma in choral conducting and teaching music. After holding different posts at the Hungarian National Library Széchényi and at the Institute for Musicology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences she worked at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre of the Liszt Academy of Music, of which she was Head between 1986 and 2009.
Eckhardt has been awarded numerous prizes for her Liszt research, in Hungary, and also in Europe and the US. Alongside Franz Liszt, her main research interests include the musical life of the 19th century and Hungary’s musical history.