Tasso: lamento e trionfo, S. 96, was composed by Franz Liszt in 1849, revising it in 1850–51 and again in 1854. It is numbered No. 2 in his cycle of 13 symphonic poems written during his Weimar period
Franz Liszt, portrait by Hungarian painter Miklós Barabás, 1847
'Tasso in the Hospital of St Anne Ferrara' by Eugène Delacroix.
Orchesterwerke Romantik Themen
A Faust Symphony in three character pictures, S.108, or simply the Faust Symphony, is a choral symphony written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama, Faust.
Faust and Mephistopheles (1848) by Ary Scheffer
Margarete at the Spinning Wheel (c. 1840-50) by Ary Scheffer
Faust in the Walpurgis Night (c. 1840-50) by Ary Scheffer