friss

Updated: May 4, 2025

of Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies, that were, perhaps, the greatest of all he achieved, where his unpremeditated frenzy revelled in purest folk-rhythm and tune. The natural division of the Hungarian dance, with the sad Lassu and the glad Friss, is here clear in order and recurrence. In full tragic majesty the noble theme enters, in panoply of woe.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies