Hunnenschlacht

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Hunnenschlacht (Battle of the Huns). 11th of Liszt's 13 symphonic poems. Comp. 1856–7, f.p. Weimar 1858. Inspired by Kaulbach's mural of legend of battle in the air between ghosts of slain Huns and Romans after Battle of Chalons in 451.

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