Franz Liszt

Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S. 158

LW A102 · R. 10b · 1843–1846

Total duration: 19'

1. Sonetto 104
2. Sonetto 47
3. Sonetto 123

Liszt originally wrote the Tre sonetti di Petrarca in 1843–1844 for voice and piano (S. 270i; LW N14/1; R. 578a), with the sonnets in the order nos. 104, 47 and 123. By 1846, he had made an arrangement of the set for solo piano (S. 157; LW A102; R. 10b).

Liszt soon revised the piano arrangements, which he later included as the fourth, fifth and sixth pieces of Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année (Italie) (S. 161; LW A55; R. 10b). At this stage, he swapped the order of the first two songs, so that the sonnets are in the order nos. 47, 104 and 123.

Liszt finally, in 1864, made a further version of the songs for voice and piano (S. 270ii; LW N14/2; R. 578b), which keeps the final sonnet order of nos. 47, 104 and 123. The first of these songs (no. 47) also exists in two intermediate versions from 1851 and 1854 (S. 270a and S. 270b).

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2. Sonetto 47

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3. Sonetto 123

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