Mayerling     ...the music

We are grateful to Dance & Dancers and to Noel Goodwin for permission to reprint this copyright table detailing John Lanchbery's selection of Liszt's music for Kenneth MacMillan's ballet.

ACT 1

	1.	Prelude	A Faust Symphony (1st mvt)
		Prologue	Heroide funebre
	2.	Wedding Procession	A Faust Symphony (1st/4th mvts)
	3.)	Waltzes	Soirees de Vienne *
	4.)
	5.	Rudolf solo	Cinq petits pieces, No. 2 *
		Rudolf/Louise	Valse melancolique *
	6.	Larisch/Helene Vetsera/Children	Festklange
	7.	Hungarian Officers	Morceau en caractere hongroise *
	8.	Rudolf/Larisch	(A Faust Symphony (1st mvt)
			( 7 Hungarian Portraits, No 2 *
	9.	Interruption/Return of guests	)A Faust Symphony (1st mvt)
	10.	Scene change	)
	11.	Elisabeth's appartments	Valse oubliee No. 2 *
	12.	Elisabeth/Rudolf	Berceuse *
	13.	Scene change	)Tasso
	14.	Stephanie and maids	)
		Rudolf enters	A Faust Symphony (1st mvt
	15.	Rudolf/Stephanie	Etudes d'execution transcendante No.12
	ACT 2
	16.	Tavern scene	Festklange
	17.	Bratfisch solo	Morceau en caractere hongroise (different from #7) *
	18.	Whores' dance	Festklange
	19.	Mitzi solo	Christmas Tree No. 7 *
	20.	Rudolf and men	Czardas obstine *
	21.	Mitzi/Rudolf/Ensemble)	'At the Tavern' from Lenau's 'Faust'
		Police Raid)	(Mephisto Waltz No. 1)
	22.	Mitzi/Police; Rudolf/Mary; Scene change	A Faust Symphony (3rd mvt)
	23.	Vetsera house	Festklange
		Larisch entry; fortune telling etc	Fleurs melodiques des Alpes *
	24.	Musical interlude)	7 Hungarian Portraits Nos 1, 2, 5 *
		Scene, Hofburg )
	25.	Joke cigar/Entrance of women	Fleurs melodiques des Alpes *
	26.	Elisabeth's solo	7 Hungarian Portraits, No. 7 *
	27.	Fireworks	Mazeppa
	28.	Elisabeth/Middleton	Consolation No. 5 *
		Rudolf's interruption	Mazeppa
	29.	Guests return	Consolation No. 1 *
	29a.	Song	Ich Scheide
	30.	Remainder of scene	Mazeppa
	31.	Rudolf/Mary	Etudes d'execution transcendante, No. 3 *;
			Faust Symphony (1st mvt);
			An episode from Lenau's 'Faust'
	ACT 3
	32.	Snow scene and hunt	Mephisto Polka *
	33.	Scene change	) Vallee d'Obermann (early version) *
	34.	Larisch/Rudolf/Elisabeth	)
	35.	Rudolf/Mary	Heroide funebre
	36.	At Mayerling	Die Ideale
	37.	Bratfisch solo	(5 Hungarian Folksongs, No. 4 *;
			(Puszta Wehmuth *
	38.	Rudolf alone	Funerailles *
	39.	Rudolf/Mary pas de deux	Etudes d'execution transcendante No. 11 *
		Her murder	A Faust Symphony (1st mvt)
		Rudolf undecided	Heroide funebre
		Interruption; Rudolf's panic and suicide	Tasso
	40.	Epilogue	Heroide funebre (as Prologue)
		* orchestrated by John Lanchbery

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