Free Arrangements IX (II/9)

Volume 36 of the New Liszt Edition contains piano works written between 1848 and 1850, and free arrangements. After transcriptions of 13 songs by Robert Franz, there are transcriptions of works by Mendelssohn, Verdi, Ernst (Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), and Schumann. Schumann is represented by the transcription of his famous song Widmung. This series of transcriptions is concluded by a grand, three-movement operatic paraphrase, the Illustrations du Prophete de Meyerbeer. At the end of the volume the editors have included an early version of the Verdi transcription Salve Maria (from the opera I lombardi).

It is published in a hard blue clothbound edition with a preface in German and English, a critical commentary in English, and illustrations of Liszt's original manuscripts. The soft paper bound version is part of the series Liszt: Klavierwerke, has no critical commentary, and serves practical purposes.