Joel Lazar:

>Mikael Rasmusson opined that:
>
>>At the funeral of a war hero (Rommel?) they played Heroid Funebre (The
>>funeral of a hero).  If anything, Liszt was a pacifist.
>
>Actually, the title of this symphonic poem (spelled incorrectly above)
>translates as "Heroic Elegy".

Is it Heroide? Thanks for correcting the translation.  I had a feeling
that something was wrong.  IIRC the Hungarian title ends with "elegiac"
or something like that.

>The composer's prefatory remarks in the score state that it is the only
>worked-out part of a sketched "Revolutionary Symphony" inspired by the 1830
>French uprisings.  Further commentary makes clear what should be obvious
>from the music itself, this is a monumental lament for the victims of war,
>not a glorification of military valor.

The unsuccessful Hungarian uprising in 1848 (?) inspired him to complete
these sketches. A lament.

Mikael
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