Enfant, si j'étais roi, S.283 (Liszt, Franz)

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Editor Peter Raabe (1872–1945)
Publisher. Info. Musikalische Werke. Serie VII, Band 1
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1917. Plate F.L. VII 7.
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2nd version

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Editor Carl Armbruster (1846–1917)
Language English / French
Translator Charles Manney (1872–1951), English text
Publisher. Info. Thirty Songs. For High Voice
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1911.
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Editor Peter Raabe (1872–1945)
Publisher. Info. Musikalische Werke. Serie VII, Band 2
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1921. Plate F.L. VII 67.
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Editor Eugen d' Albert (1864–1932)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F.Kahnt Nachfolger, 1908. Plate 3838b.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

1st version

For Piano solo (Liszt)
See: No.3 of Buch der Lieder II, S.535–540

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General Information

Work Title Enfant, si j’étais roi
Alternative. Title Mein Kind, wär ich König / Child, if I were King
Composer Liszt, Franz
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. S.283/1 ; LW.N24/1 (1st version)
S.283/2 ; LW.N24/2 (2nd version)
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IFL 92
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1844 (1st version)
1849 (2nd version)
First Publication. 1844 (1st version)
1859 (2nd version)
Librettist Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French text
Peter Cornelius (1824–1874), German translation
Language French / German
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation Voice and piano

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Version History

  • Composed for soprano or tenor voice and piano, 1844 (= 1st version, S.283/1)
Published 1844 by Schlesinger (Berlin)
Published 1985 by Editio Musica Budapest (Budapest)
  • Revised for tenor voice and piano, 1849 (= 2nd version, S.283/2)
Published 1859 by Schlesinger (Berlin)

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Published in a "Buch der Lieder (Band II)" by Schlesinger in 1844. (HMB suggests 1849, but publication date of 1844 is more strongly suggested by letters of Liszt to Schlesinger from early 1844 discussed in "Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress" (2003).) These letters also suggest that he was already beginning or at least discussing the transcriptions (S.535) with Schlesinger as early as mid-1844- in fact a mid-1844 letter had it that Liszt's friend Count Bethlen was going to bring Schlesinger transcriptions of the lieder; perhaps they were not published or Liszt decided to rethink them?