There is no marked disz in the second Rhapsody. He published 20 works between 1840 and 1847 which, together with four unpublished works, became the basis for the first 15 Hungarian Rhapsodies between 1851-1853. Along with that honor it was also one of Liszt's most feared pieces due to a performance by an ill-prepared pianist at the Hofgartnerei in Weimar for Liszt himself. This piece was dedicated to Count Laszlo Teleky. Lassu Rich melody in the right hand that extends into a short cadenza-like figure.
Main theme begins the lassu .
Flying thirty-second notes in the right hand. Hopping melody with a sixteenth note bass line which leads to a cadenza. Friss Friss begins. Dreamy figure which develops faster and faster tempos with more and more complicated melodisc themes. New motive is introduced as tempo slows once more only to build faster again with chromatic ascending scales.