Ballade No. 2 (Liszt)
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Ballade No. 2 (Liszt)
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The Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171, is a piano composition by Franz Liszt, written in 1853. Claudio Arrau, who studied under Liszt's disciple Martin Krause, maintained that the Ballade was based on the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, with the piece's chromatic ostinati representing the sea: "You really can perceive how the journey turns more and more difficult each time. In the fourth night he drowns. Next, the last pages are a transfiguration". The ballad is based largely on two themes: a bro
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Composition for piano by Franz Liszt
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