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Franz Liszt's piano transcriptions have long been hailed by pianists and scholars as definitive representatives of the genre, an assertion supported by the central place of these works in piano repertoire. From his improvisatory fantaisies of the 1820s to the weighty transcriptions of the 1860 and 1870s, Liszt's attitude toward rewriting music evolved over the span of his career. Though many of his contemporaries viewed transcription as an inferior exercise, Liszt's oeuvre suggests that he found in the act of transcription new realms of artistic possibility.