🇭🇺Franz Liszt ： Marche funèbre de Dom Sébastien S.402

This is Liszt’s piano arrangement of the funeral march appearing in Donizetti’s opera Dom Sébastien. Built on a heavy, orderly procession, it combines a singing melodic line with rich chordal sonorities, creating dramatic surges within an atmosphere of solemnity. A central point of interest is the contrast between the march’s recurring sense of motion and passages in which the melody is allowed to unfold broadly. In performance, maintain a steady pulse, balance the voices so that the inner parts remain audible, and seek a broad expressive range without allowing the forte passages to become overbearing.