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Franz Liszt

Tarantelle di bravura, S 386  Play

Alessandro Taverna Piano

Recorded on 12/09/2009, uploaded on 03/11/2010

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Tarantelle di bravura, S 386                 Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt composed the Tarentelle di bravura d'après la tarantella de 'La muette de Portici', S.386, R.117 in 1846.  As its full name implies, Liszt composed this after hearing La muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici), an important early 19

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Century French opera by Daniel Auber, now mostly forgotten.  Tarantella (or tarantelle in Italian) refers to a number of different southern Italian couple folk dances characterized by a fast upbeat tempo.      Alessandro Taverna