In 1857, Liszt wrote a work on motifs from Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha’s opera “Diana von Solange“, a work Liszt intended to be dedicated to Wagner, who made it clear, in a letter to Liszt, that he would prefer money. Liszt’s piano arrangement is felicitously constructed, sounds perfectly echt-Liszt, and the 2:06 theme with its development and climax is quite attractive. As previously alluded to, the original opera was not well-received: after its second appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
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