Schubert-Liszt, "Hymne", S. 562/4, based on "Geisterchor" from Rosamunde, D.797

This is the fourth of Franz Schubert's Geistliche Lieder für das Pianoforte übertragen von Franz Liszt
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I sometimes look at Composer's Datebook on yourclassical.org to find some calendar inspiration for what to play. In this case, it was this October 5 story:
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but if the music for Rosamunde was discovered this way, how did Liszt produce this transcription decades earlier? It's implausible (but actually not impossible) that as a young student of Czerny's in Vienna, he saw the theatrical performance of Rosamunde. It was reportedly a flop, and anyway the transcription came about 17 years later. The "Geisterchor" was separately published with a piano accompaniment some years later, and presumably that was Liszt's source, especially since it apparently carried the title, "Hymne", that Liszt used. It's ironic that in fact this was a secular, not "geistliche", piece that nonetheless had literal ghosts. Leslie Howard amusingly calls the text, ""a likely candidate for the worst piece of German poetry."
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