Franz Liszt - Csárdás macabre S. 224 (audio + sheet music)

Liszt penned three works with csárdás in the title, which demonstrate his capacity for writing virtuosic works during his old age - particularly the Csárdás macabre. A csárdás - a Hungarian dance that usually contains a slow, free introduction (lassan or lassu) followed by a rapid, wilder type of dance (friss or friska) - is similar to a Hungarian rhapsody. Liszt composed the first of these, the Csárdás macabre (S 224), during 1881 and 1882. Its innovative nature includes use of repeated open fifths and th