Comment disaient-ils, S.276 (Liszt, Franz)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	1844 (1st version) 1849–59 (2nd version)
Genre Categories	Lieder; Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; French language; German language; For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)

1 Performances
- 1.1 Naxos
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Scores
  - 2.1.1 1st version (S.276/1)
  - 2.1.2 2nd version (S.276/2)
- 2.2 Arrangements and Transcriptions
  - 2.2.1 1st version
    - 2.2.1.1 For Piano solo (Liszt)
3 Free Recordings
4 General Information
5 Navigation etc.
- 5.1 Version History

Performances

Naxos

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Sheet Music

Scores

1st version (S.276/1)

Complete Score (transposed, F♯ minor)
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Bassani (2010/5/9)

Editor	Eugen d' Albert (1864–1932)
Publisher. Info.	Leipzig: C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger, 1908. Plate 3835b.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Transposed for medium voice.
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Complete Score (original key, G♯ minor) (Preview)
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piupianissimo (2010/3/20)

Editor	Peter Raabe (1872–1945)
Publisher. Info.	Musikalische Werke. Serie VII, Band 1 (pp.42-46) Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1917. Plate F.L. VII 6.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Originally scanned at about 160pi, converted to 600dpi monochrome.
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2nd version (S.276/2)

Complete Score (transposed, A minor)
*#323890 - 2.54MB, 7 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 325×⇩ - Schissel

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Schissel (2014/5/4)

Editor	Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)
Language	French / English
Translator	Caryl Florio (1843–1920), English text
Publisher. Info.	Miss Lizzie Cronyn’s Favorite Songs (No.11) New York: Edward Schuberth & Co., 1876. Plate E.S. & Co. 131.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Complete Score (original key, G♯ minor)
*#04879 - 0.32MB, 5 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1584×⇩ - Funper

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Funper (2007/4/4)

Editor	Carl Armbruster (1846-1917)
Language	English / French
Translator	Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872-1951), English text
Publisher. Info.	Thirty Songs: for High Voice Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1911.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Complete Score (original key, G♯ minor) (Preview)
*#60377 - 0.39MB, 3 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V* - 1370×⇩ - piupianissimo

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piupianissimo (2010/3/31)

Editor	Peter Raabe (1872–1945)
Publisher. Info.	Musikalische Werke. Serie VII, Band 2 (pp.164-66) Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1921. Plate F.L. VII 66.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

1st version

For Piano solo (Liszt)

See: Buch der Lieder II, S.535–540 (No.2)

Free Recordings

Yeghishe Manucharyan (tenor), Tatyana Dudochkin (piano)

Salute to Liszt Concert in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, January, 2011.

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General Information

Work Title	Comment, disaient-ils
Alternative. Title	Was tun? (Wie flieh’n, sagten sie) / How, they said
Composer	Liszt, Franz
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	S.276/1 ; LW.N12/1 (1st version) S.276/2 ; LW.N12/2 (2nd version)
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IFL 64
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1844 (1st version) 1849–59 (2nd version)
First Publication.	1849 (1st version) 1859 (2nd version)
Librettist	Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French text Victor Massé (1822–1884), German translation (1st version)
Language	German / French (1st version) French (2nd version)
Average DurationAvg. Duration	2 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voice and piano
External Links	The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive All Music Guide

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Version History

Composed for soprano or tenor voice and piano, 1842 (= 1st version, S.276/1)

Published 1844 by Schlesinger (Berlin)

Arranged for solo piano, 1847 (= S.535), as No.2 of Buch der Lieder II

Published 1985 by Editio Musica Budapest (Budapest)

Revised 1849–59 (= 2nd version, S.276/2)

Published 1859 by Schlesinger (Berlin)

Hugo's poem had the title "Autre guitare"; the poem was set by several other composers, including Saint-Saëns, Lalo, etc., sometimes as "Guitare" or with similar titles (as noted in the notes to the recordings of those other songs on Hyperion Records- where the Liszt connection is mentioned- and at Recmusic.org as above).

Published in a "Buch der Lieder (Band II)" by Schlesinger in 1844. (HMB suggests 1849, but publication date of 1844 is more strongly suggested by letters of Liszt to Schlesinger from early 1844 discussed in "Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress" (2003).) These letters also suggest that he was already beginning or at least discussing the transcriptions (S.535) with Schlesinger as early as mid-1844- in fact a mid-1844 letter had it that Liszt's friend Count Bethlen was going to bring Schlesinger transcriptions of the lieder; perhaps they were not published or Liszt decided to rethink them?