Volume 39 of the complete edition launched by EMB in 1970 makes accessible transcriptions made by the elderly master between 1879 and 1885. The volume includes transcriptions from works by Russian composers (a Tchaikovsky transcription, the Polonaise from the opera Eugene Onegin) transcriptions of a work each by Schumann and Schubert, the Réminiscences de Boccanegra (Verdi), and Liszt's last operatic fantasy, from Wagner's Parsifal: Feierlicher Marsch zum heiligen Gral.

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