Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in c-sharp minor

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• Liszt composed this piece for piano in 1847, and it was published in 1851.  
• Liszt dedicated this work to Hungarian writer and politician László Teleky. 
• Liszt arranged this work for orchestra in collaboration with Franz Doppler. Their orchestration was originally published in the key of d minor, and labeled as the fourth of Liszt’s orchestral Hungarian rhapsodies. Today it is usually labeled No. 2, whether one is referring to the piano version or orchestra version.¹

1. “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2 (Liszt, Franz,” IMSLP, accessed March 18, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Hungarian_Rhapsody_No.2%2C_S.244%2F2_(Liszt%2C_Franz).