Transcendental Etude No. 11 in D-flat, "Harmonies du Soir" is the eleventh etude of the set of twelve Transcendental Etudes

Transcendental Etudes

The Transcendental Etudes , S.139, are a series of twelve compositions for solo piano by Franz Liszt. They were published in 1852 as a revision of a more technically difficult 1837 series, which in turn were the elaboration of a set of studies written in 1826:...

 by Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

. This etude is a study in harmonies, broken chords

Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously...

 played in quick succession, full octave jumps, chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony...

 harmonies, chord variations, especially proper pedaling, and performance as a whole.

This piece is considered one of the most artistic of the étude

Étude

An étude , is an instrumental musical composition, most commonly of considerable difficulty, usually designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular technical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano...

s, along with Chasse-neige

Transcendental Etude No. 12 (Liszt)

Transcendental Etude No. 12 in B flat minor is an étude for piano written by composer Franz Liszt. It has the programmatic title "Chasse-Neige", and is the 12th and last of the Transcendental Etudes...

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Innovations

Experiments in tonal ambiguity and 'impressionistic' sonorities mark this as a forward-looking work.

Origin

Unlike the other etudes, Harmonies du Soir, which is the eleventh Transcendental Etude, was rooted from the seventh

Transcendental Etude No. 7 (Liszt)

Transcendental Etude No. 7 in E-flat, "Eroica" is the seventh of the twelve Transcendental Etudes by Franz Liszt. It is a study of rapid downward runs, bravura and octaves ....

Etudes in Twelve Exercises, which was a study in alternating hands. However, the similarities in melody are apparent.