Liszt: La romanesca, S252b (Pierdomenico)

The imitation of all things Spanish was staple fare for many decades in the nineteenth century, and music with a Spanish flavour eventually became a good deal more popular than any truly Spanish art- or folk-music, with famous offerings by Bizet, Rimsky-Korsakov, Moszkowski, Chabrier, Glinka and Lalo, to name a few at random. La romanesca is a Spanish dance melody which used to be strangely ascribed to Italy in various Liszt catalogues; Liszt published his first elaboration of it as a ‘fameux air de danse d