Mendelssohn Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20

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This Etude is comes from a set of Etudes that Liszt originally composed in his youth, but later revised to become 12 of the most technically challenging works for the piano. This is the eighth in the set. The etudes were composed in 1851 and published the following year. They wer ...  Show more

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