ELEGIE S.129b

LISZT'S FIRST ELEGY
This original version of the first El'gie remains Liszt's only work for a solo woodwind instrument, and was written in memory of the recently-deceased Countess Marie Moukhanoff-Kalergis (1822-1874), who had studied with both Chopin and Liszt, and for whom Liszt had composed his Valse-Impromptu, S213. Marie had become an influential patron of many things artistic, and Liszt was deeply saddened by her death. In the days immediately following he composed a piano piece called Schlummerlied im Grabe, S195a (Lullaby in the grave). Within a very short time he developed the piece into the form presented here. The manuscripts of these two scores are held in the Nuremberg State Library, which kindly supplied photocopies to the Liszt Society, which published both pieces in its annual Journal.
The manuscript is without title, but was already being referred to in the correspondence as an Elegy for Marie Moukhanoff-Kalergis. The MS is very closely-written and much amen

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