Franz Liszt Popular Song Ranking [2026]

DedicationRobert Schumann/Franz Liszt99rank/position

List: Dedicated to You (Dedication) 2010 Competition Finals – Special Grand Prix / Tomoyo Umemura

This is Schumann’s Widmung arranged by Franz Liszt.

It’s a brilliant and beautiful piece.

With both charm and sweetness, Widmung conveys the warmth of spring.

Among Liszt’s works, isn’t it one of the gentler, calmer ones? It always leaves me feeling elegant whenever I listen.

Please enjoy it as if you were nobility.

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Mayumi

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TotentanzFranz Liszt100rank/position

Liszt Totentanz

The mysterious yet ominous atmosphere conjured by the profoundly weighty piano is truly unique to this piece.

Composed by Franz Liszt—dubbed the “magician of the piano” for his transcendental virtuosity—it is also known in Japan by the title “Dance of Death.” Here’s where it gets a bit complicated: although it shares the Japanese title “Dance of Death” with Saint-Saëns’s famous symphonic poem, it is an entirely different work.

Moreover, Liszt himself, inspired by Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre, created a solo piano arrangement of the Saint-Saëns piece, separate from his own original work of the same Japanese title.

The piece introduced here is Liszt’s composition titled Totentanz in the original German, presented in his own solo piano arrangement.

It incorporates phrases from the Gregorian chant Dies irae, and the contrast between its tranquil and tempestuous sections is strikingly beautiful and dramatic.

Why not listen to it while contemplating the 14th-century fresco The Triumph of Death, said to have inspired its motif?

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KOH-1

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