Descripción
Liszt's setting of Goethe's great verse drama takes the form of three character portraits, as the composer illustrates Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles using his remarkable and innovative thematic transformations. The piece's expansion of the tonal range, and inventive employment of dissonance was later to influence the Tone Poems of Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy. Written in 1857, the same year and another masterpiece of tonal innovation, Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde, the score is now available as part of the highly attractive Dover Phoenix Hardback Editions.