Les Cloches de Geneve, Années de Pèlerinage, First Year Switzerland, S. 160 (Liszt)
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Notes
The Bells of Geneva is a work taken from the first year of Franz Liszt ‘s Pilgrimage Years: Switzerland. A collection that would probably have as a preface another small collection of three pieces, Apparition (1834). This first Swiss year evokes Liszt’s stay in this country 20 years earlier with Marie d’Agoult.
Dedicated to his first daughter Blandine (1835-1862), this piece is accompanied by a quote from Byron taken from Childe Harold: “I do not live in myself, but I become a part of what surrounds me.”
