Franz Liszt Adagio von Die Zauberflöte for Piano 4 hands
Liszts only work based upon Mozarts Magic Flute, the Song of the Two Armed Men, comes from his later years, although his manuscript, at present in the Library of Congress, bears no title or date. We do not know the occasion for the transcriptionit may have been intended more for private study than public performance, seizing as it does upon the most serious and learned passage in Mozarts opera, where the two armed men sing what amounts to an operatic choral prelude in homage to Bach (on the choral Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh dareinO God, look down from Heaven) as they lead Tamino to his initiation into Sarastros order. In order not to miss any of Mozarts marvellous counterpoint, Liszt made his arrangement for piano duet. It is his only operatic duet which does not stem from a solo piece. from notes by Leslie Howard 1996
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