The holograph of this catalogue, which is in the Weimar Archives (WA, ms. Z 15), is in the hand of August Conradi, with revisions and corrections by Liszt himself. Since Conradi was resident in Weimar for just a few months, in 1849, that helps to pinpoint the date of its completion. The document was written in French, and its original title runs: “Programme général des morceaux exécutés par F. Liszt à ses concerts de 1838 à 1848.” Liszt was obviously relying on his memory when he compiled this inventory, since it contains some curious omissions (the “Waldstein” Sonata, for example, which he is known to have played). On the other hand, he did not invent such works as the transcriptions of the Berlioz Carnaval romain and Beethoven Egmont overtures, to say nothing of the operatic paraphrase on Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. The whereabouts of these pieces is unknown, but their presence in this catalogue confirms that at one time they existed. The grouping of the pieces by genre, into fifteen categories, is Liszt’s own.
Guillaume Tell (Rossini); Oberon, Der Freischutz, Jubel (Weber); Egmont (Beethoven); Die Zauberflöte (Mozart); Carnaval romain (Berlioz)
Beethoven: Fifth, Sixth, Seventh; Berlioz: Fantastic
Beethoven: C Minor, E-flat major (“Emperor”); Hummel: A minor, B minor; Moscheles: E-flat major, G minor, E major; Mendelssohn: G minor, D minor; Chopin: E minor, F minor; Henselt: F minor; Weber: Concertstück; J. S. Bach: Concerto for three pianos; Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
Hummel: Septet in D minor; Beethoven: Quintet in E-flat major; Spohr: Quintet in C minor; Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia: Quartet; Beethoven: Trios; Schubert: Trios; Mendelssohn: Trios; Hummel: Trios; Mayseder: Trios; Pixis: Trios; Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin, Sonatas for piano and cello
Beethoven: Op. 26, Op. 27, Op. 29, no. 2,* Op. 57, Op. 101, Op. 106, Op. 109, Op. 110, Op. 111; Weber: C major, A-flat major; E minor, D minor; Hummel: F-sharp minor; Czerny: A-flat major; Schumann: F-sharp minor; Schuberth: Sonata [Karl ?]; Hummel: Sonata for four hands; Moscheles: Sonata for four hands; Czerny: Sonata for four hands
Beethoven, Schumann (dedicated to Liszt), Schubert, Hummel, Czerny
Don Giovanni (Mozart), Robert le diable (Meyerbeer), Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer), La Juive (Halévy), Norma (Bellini), La sonnambula, I puritani (Bellini), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart); Fantasy on Swiss motifs, Fantasy on Spanish motifs, Divertimento on a cavatina by Pacini, Divertimento in the Hungarian style by Schubert, Paraphrase on “God Save the King,” Paraphrase on the fourth act of Dom Sébastien (Donizetti) by Kullak
Chopin, Moscheles, Paganini, Kessler, Hiller, Döhler, Liszt
Bach (“Goldberg”), Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn (“Variations sérieuses”), Czerny (Op. 14), Kroll (“Variations mignonnes”)
Moscheles: On the Alexander March, On an Austrian melody; Czerny: On “God Save Franz the Kaiser”; Pixis: On a motif from Il barbiere di Siviglia; Chopin: “Là ci darem la mano”; Thalberg, Chopin, Czerny, Pixis, Herz, Liszt: Hexaméron
Bach: Organ fugues, Fugues from the “48,” Chromatic fantasy; Scarlatti: “Cat’s Fugue”; Mendelssohn: Fugues; Handel: Suites
Rákóczy March, Funeral March from Beethoven’s “Eroica,” Funeral March from Donizetti’s Dom Sébastien, March to the Scaffold (Berlioz), Turkish March (Beethoven), March for the Sultan Abdul Medjid Khan (Donizetti), Hungarian March (Schubert), Three Characteristic Marches (Schubert), Circassian March (Glinka), Heroic March (Liszt), Heroic March (Vollweiler)
Chopin: Waltzes, Polonaises, Mazurkas, Ballades, Nocturnes, Impromptus, Scherzos, Preludes; Mendelssohn: Scherzos; Weber: Polonaise, Momento capriccioso, Invitation to the Dance; Schumann: Carnaval; Kessler: Toccata; Nicolai: Trois Etudes mélodiques; Berlioz: L’Idée fixe; Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, Three Petrarch Sonnets, Feuille morte (Elégie), Gaudeamus igitur, Valse mélancolique, Bravura waltzes, Caprice-Valse de Lucie et Parisina, Tarantelle from La Muette de Portici, Russian Galop by Bulhakow, Gypsy Polka by Conradi; Schachner: Ombres et rayons
Schubert: fifty songs; Mendelssohn: six songs; Dessauer: three songs; Beethoven: “Adelaïde,” Gellert Songs; Michael Wielhorsky: Melodies (transcribed by Henselt and Liszt); Weber: “Schlummerlied,” “Leyer und Schwert”; Liszt: Songs, “Nonnenwerth,” “La romanesca”; Schumann: “Liebeslied”; Meyerbeer: “Der Mönch”; Rossini: Soirées musicales; Donizetti: Nuits d’été à Pausilippe
Hungarian melodies, Nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies; Döhler: Russian melodies; Henselt: Air bohémien; Liszt: Swiss melodies, Canzone veneziane, Canzone napolitane, Tarantella napolitana, Spanish melodies
* Here Liszt was mistaken. He probably meant the Sonata in D minor (Op. 31, no. 2), subtitled “The Tempest.”