Arrangements
Camille Saint-Saëns, a close friend of Liszt, made a two-piano arrangement of the sonata in 1914, but it was never published in his lifetime because of rights issues. It was first published in 2004 by Édition Durand in Paris, edited by Sabrina Teller Ratner. According to a letter from Saint-Saëns to Jacques Durand, dated 23 August 1914, the two-piano arrangement was something that Liszt had announced but never realized.
There is an extremely difficult version of this Sonata in B minor for Solo Violin which was transcribed by Noam Sivan and premiered by violinist Giora Schmidt in September 2011. It has been published by Carl Fischer.
Leo Weiner made an orchestral arrangement of the sonata in 1955. The arrangement has not been published and exists only in manuscript form. It was recorded in 2006 by the orchestra of Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar with Nicolás Pasquet conducting.
The sonata also appears in an orchestrated version in some 1930s movies, including the The Black Cat, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, as well as the Flash Gordon serials.
Frederick Ashton used the sonata for his 1963 ballet Marguerite and Armand, created for Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, based on "The Lady of the Camellias" by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The original performances used an orchestral transcription of the sonata by Humphrey Searle.
There also exists an organ transcription of the sonata.
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