APPENDIX

CHAPTER 2

The theme in the C major Piano Quartet WoO 36 referred to is practically a minor-key version of the ‘Prometheus’ tune. The rhythm is certainly right:

In the Rondo last movement of the Piano Quartet No. 2 in D major there is a hint of the same tune in embryonic form, now in a major key but in jaunty 6/8 time:

CHAPTER 5

The reduced music score used here is Liszt’s version of the ‘Eroica’ (he transcribed all Beethoven’s symphonies for solo piano), and it is of interest that he was to use exactly the same device as Beethoven when in 1832 he sketched the opening of what was to be his first piano concerto—also in E flat—the only difference being that he went on to repeat it a step further downwards:

Over these first two bars Liszt wrote Das versteht ihr alle nicht, haha! (‘None of you will understand this’—the ‘ha-ha’ is sounded by the brass and winds where the strings have a rest in the second half of bar 2). It is very tempting to see this as a teasing homage to the ‘Eroica’ and the composer he most revered.

CHAPTER 5

See Claude V. Palisca, ‘French Revolutionary Models for Beethoven’s Eroica Funeral March’, in Ann Dhu Shapiro (ed.), Music and Context (Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 202.

a: Gossec, Marche lugubre

b: Beethoven, Marcia funebre