Description
Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A major, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly.
The fourth and final period of revision ended in 1861. The second concerto, while less virtuosic than the First Piano Concerto, shows far more originality in form. In this respect it reveals a closer link to Liszt’s better known symphonic poems in both style and structure.
