Transcriptions by Franz Liszt


This article lists the various treatments given by Franz Liszt to the works of almost 100 other composers.
These treatments included transcriptions for other instruments, arrangements, orchestrations, fantaisies, reminiscences, paraphrases, illustrations, variations, and editions.
Liszt also extensively treated his own works in a similar manner, but these are not tallied here—neither are his treatments of national melodies whose composers are unknown, nor other anonymous works.
In most cases, Liszt arranged only one or two pieces by a composer, but he delved more deeply into the works of Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Donizetti, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Verdi, and Wagner.
The earliest-born composer whose works Liszt dealt with was Orlande de Lassus. Jacques Arcadelt was born earlier, but Liszt's treatment was not of Arcadelt's original work, rather of a setting by Pierre-Louis Dietsch loosely based on Arcadelt. The last composer to die whose works Liszt dealt with was Géza Zichy.

[Alexander Alyabyev]

Note: The Mazurka pour piano composée par un amateur de St. Pétersbourg, paraphrasée par F. L. was based on a mazurka that has often been misattributed to Alyabyev, but was in fact written by Mikhail Vielgorsky.

[Johann Sebastian Bach]

[Hector Berlioz]

[Alexander Borodin]

[Frédéric Chopin]

[César Cui]

[Josef Dessauer]

[Giuseppe Donizetti]

[Ernest II, [Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]

[Robert Franz]

[Mikhail Glinka]

[George Frideric Handel]

[Johann von Herbeck]


[Josef Krov]

[Orlande de Lassus]


[Jules Massenet]

[Mihály Mosonyi]

[Giovanni Pacini]

Original workLiszt workForcesDateS no.Notes
Opera Niobe Divertissement sur le cavatine "I tuoi frequenti palpiti"piano1835–36S.419

F. Pezzini

[Gioachino Rossini]

[Camille Saint-Saëns]

[Bedřich Smetana]


[Karl Tausig]

[Pier Adolfo Tirindelli]


[Mikhail Vielgorsky]

Note: Vielgorski is also seen as Count Michael Wielhorski.

[Carl [Maria von Weber]]


Index of S. numbers