Études d'exécution transcendante Transcendental Études
Portrait of Liszt (1839)
Catalogue
S.139
Year
1837 (1837)
Based on
Étude en douze exercices, S.136
Dedication
Carl Czerny
Published
1852 (1852)
Movements
12
For Liszt's Études d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini (S. 140/S. 141) see Grandes études de Paganini
For works with a similar title, see Transcendental Étude (disambiguation).
The Transcendental Études (French: Études d'exécution transcendante), S.139, are a set of twelve compositions for piano by Franz Liszt. They were published in 1852 as a revision of an 1837 set (which had not borne the title "d'exécution transcendante"), which in turn were – for the most part – an elaboration of a set of studies written in 1826.
History
The genesis of the Transcendental Études goes back to 1825, when 14-year-old Liszt wrote a set of youthful exerci
Mendelssohn biography.