Arranging Orchestral Music for the King of Instruments:

An Applied Analysis of Arrangements by Beethoven, Lemare and Liszt Jens Korndoerfer

III. Franz Liszt: Modications to the Original Text in an Arrangement
When Liszt made his piano arrangements of Beethovens symphonies, he not only attempted to include all of the ne details of the orchestral score, but sometimes he would go even further and add notes or interpret the existing ones. I will analyze two examples from Beethoven V/2, in which Liszt altered the original text in his piano version. Then I will present how I used similar means in my organ version of the same piece and also offer an explanation as to why Liszt may have made these changes. In m. 78, the viola, violoncello and the double basses have the same repeated thirty-second notes throughout the entire measure; in mm. 81ff, Violins I and II as well as the violas play the same accompanimental gure in unison, the violas one octave lower (example no. 3).

Part II

Example no. 3: Beethoven V/2, mm. 78 83 (original)14

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