Ed.: Ernst Herttrich, Fing.: Hans-Martin Theopold
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Often referred to by pianists as the Dante Sonata , it is the closing piece in the second volume of the Années de Pèlerinage (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, while under the spell of Dante s Divine Comedy , Liszt had begun work on a fragment dantesque . He later incorporated the work in revised form into the volume Italy of his Années de Pèlerinage . The single-movement sonata is based on the Canto Inferno in Dante s poem. It describes the wild ride of the soul into hell in an effective manner, finally closing with several forgiving chords in a kind of transfiguration one of the best examples of Liszt s technical ingenuity and sound artistry.
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