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Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, S. 161/7

184917 min

This guide follows Liszt’s Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, S. 161/7 (1849) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Daniel Barenboim (piano)

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Sonata form0:02–16:45

An opens the . Then the first enters: the D minor , built on the tritone, for the souls in Hell. The is the F-sharp major , a calm transformation of the . The follows, and the brings back both . The ends in rapid octaves that, at full speed, seem to split into three themes.

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