The Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam", S.259, is a piece of organ music composed by Franz Liszt in the winter of 1850 when he was in Weimar. The chorale on which the Fantasy and Fugue is based was from Act I of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète. The work is dedicated to Meyerbeer, and it was given its premiere on October 29, 1852. The revised version was premiered in the Merseburg Cathedral on September 26, 1855, with Alexander Winterberger performing. The whole work was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1852, and the fugue was additionally published as the 4th piece of Liszt's operatic fantasy "Illustrations du Prophète" (S.414). A piano duet version by Liszt appeared during the same time (S.624).
| Librettist | (from Act I of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Le prophète) |
| Date of composition | 1850 |
| Premiered | 1852, October 29th in Merseburg, Germany |
| First published | 1852, Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, Germany |
| Catalogue | S. 259 |
| Approx. duration | 30 minutes |
| Instruments | Organ |
| Autotranslations beta |
Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, S. 259 Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, S. 259 Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam, S. 259 |