 annÃ©es de pÃ¨lerinage (french for years of pilgrimage) (s.160, s.161, s.163) is a set of three suites for solo piano by franz liszt. much of it derives from his earlier work, album d'un voyageur, his first major published piano cycle, which was composed between 1835 and 1838 and published in 1842.hamilton, kenneth, "liszt's early and weimar piano works," in the cambridge companion to liszt, ed. kenneth hamiton, cambridge university press,, cambridge, 2005. annÃ©es de pÃ¨lerinage is widely considered a masterwork and summation of liszt's musical style. the third volume is notable as an example of his later style. composed well after the first two volumes, it displays less showy virtuosity and more harmonic experimentation. the title annÃ©es de pÃ¨lerinage refers to goethe's famous novel of self-realization, wilhelm meister's apprenticeship, and especially its sequel wilhelm meister's journeyman years (whose original title wilhelm meisters wanderjahre meant years of wandering or years of pilgrimage, the latter being used for its first french translation). liszt clearly places the work in line with the romantic literature of his time, prefacing most pieces with a literary passage from writers such as schiller, byron or senancour, and, in an introduction to the entire work, writing:  ==the suites== ===premiÃ¨re annÃ©e: suisse=== "premiÃ¨re annÃ©e: suisse" ("first year: switzerland"), s.160, was published in 1855. composed between 1848 and 1854, most of the pieces (nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9) are revisions of album d'un voyageur: part 1: impressions et poesies. "au lac de wallenstadt" (no. 2) and "au bord d'une source" (no. 4) received only minor revisions, while "la chapelle de guillaume tell" (no. 1), "vallÃ©e d'obermann" (no. 6), and especially "les cloches de genÃ¨ve" (no. 9) were more extensively rewritten.hamilton, pp. 66ff. "Ãglogue" (no. 7) was publish
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