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G'day.  Liszt did not compose operas. I am also thinking of deleting ''Les Deux Boursiers'' as it was never performed. (''Manon'' was his first big hit, and is still his most popular opera, although the dances from ''Le Cid'' and the exquisite ''Meditation'' from the 2nd act of ''Thais'' are concert favourites.) I think we should add the cantata, ''David Rizzio'', if only because it was his successful Prix de Rome work. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 15:20, 28 September 2008 (EDT)

: First take a look here: http://www.midi-classics.com/p1572.htm 

:This is enough to consider him related to operas, that is what they mean, I think, but it is open to discussion, OK?

Good morning...
:Liszt wrote (among thousands of piano pieces - they fill over 90 CDs!) opera transcriptions. That is, he wrote piano versions of certain tunes from certain operas. Some of them are famous - the ''Spinning Chorus'' from ''The Flying Dutchman'' for example, and parts of ''Rigoletto''. They are just that...piano versions of tunes. He also did Schubert and bits and pieces of Bach.  Joshua Bell has arranged Gershwin songs for the violin. It doesn't make Joshua - as wonderful as he is - part of the "Great American Songbook". [[Sarasate]] arranged certain well-known tunes into his "''Carmen Fantasy''". Greig did a great little piano version of Bach's ''"Sheep may safely graze"'' but it isn't a cantata. And every man and his band arranged Mozart arias in the late 1700s early 1800s for wind band...they called it ''harmonie'' music, but opera it ain't. 
: Um, why are some of the works in bold print?  [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 14:44, 29 September 2008 (EDT)

:: Thank you for your explanation, good work. The '''works''' in bolt print are the famous ones. --[[User:Joaquín Martínez]], [[User talk:Joaquín Martínez|talk]] 16:58, 29 September 2008 (EDT)