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Total duration: 112'
Album d’un voyageur (S. 156; A40a–c; R. 8) was composed between 1834 and 1838, published in 1842, and comprises three parts: Impressions et poésies (I), Fleurs mélodiques des Alpes (II) and Paraphrases (III). The third part had earlier been published separately under the title Trois Airs suisses (LW A27a).
Between 1848 and 1854, Liszt revised a selection of pieces from the first two parts of Album d’un voyageur to form the bulk of Années de pèlerinage, Première année (Suisse) (S. 160; LW A159; R. 10a). He added two new pieces to these revisions: Orage, which was newly written, and Eglogue, whose origins are contemporaneous with Album d’un voyageur.
In 1876, Liszt revised the third part of Album d’un voyageur as Trois Morceaux suisses (S. 156a; LW A27b; R. 8).
The below table gives a summary of the relationships between the works.
| S. 156/ | S. 160/ | S. |
|---|---|---|
| I/1 | – | – |
| I/2a | 2 | 156/2a bis |
| I/2b | 4 | 160/4bis |
| I/3 | 9 | – |
| I/4 | 6 | – |
| I/5 | 1 | 153a |
| I/6 | – | – |
| II/7a | – | – |
| II/7b | 8 | 157 |
| II/7c | 3 | – |
| II/8a–c | – | – |
| II/9a–c | – | – |
| III/10–12 | – | 156a |
| – | 5 | – |
| – | 7 | – |
Duration: 7' 30"
Difficulty: 4.5
Alongside the versions used in Album d’un voyageur and Années de pèlerinage, Première année (Suisse), this piece exists in an intermediate, manuscript version from 1839 (S. 156/2a bis). The three versions have only minor differences.
Duration: 3' 30"
Difficulty: 3
For the later version of this piece included in Années de pèlerinage, Première année (Suisse) (no. 4), Liszt wrote a further, nine-bar ending (S. 160/4bis) for Giovanni Sgambati in 1863.
Duration: 4'
Difficulty: 5
Duration: 11' 30"
Difficulty: 4.5
In around 1880, using the later version of this piece included in Années de pèlerinage, Première année (Suisse), and based on an initial arrangement by Eduard Lassen, Liszt made an arrangement of this piece for piano trio (S. 378a–c; LW D18) that he titled Tristia.
Duration: 13' 30"
Difficulty: 4.5
This re-uses a theme from the lost Grand Solo caractéristique à propos d’une chansonnette de Panseron (S. 153a; LW Q3).
Duration: 6' 30"
Difficulty: 4.5
This is an arrangement of a psalm setting by Claude Goudimel.
Duration: 3'
Difficulty: 2.5
Duration: 2'
Difficulty: 4
Duration: 4'
Difficulty: 3.5
Duration: 3'
Difficulty: 3.5
Duration: 4'
Difficulty: 4
This is based on a song by Ferdinand Huber.
Duration: 7'
Difficulty: 4.5
Duration: 3' 30"
Difficulty: 4
Duration: 4'
Difficulty: 4
This is based on a song by Ferdinand Huber.
Duration: 3'
Difficulty: 3.5
Duration: 4'
Difficulty: 4
This is based on a song by Ferdinand Huber.
Duration: 11'
Difficulty: 4.5
This is based on a song by Ernest Knop.
Duration: 10' 30"
Difficulty: 4.5
This is based on a song by Ferdinand Huber.
Duration: 6' 30"
Difficulty: 5
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