upon her death in 1873, a fourth (who had previously nursed him through an illness). Litolff died at Bois-Colombes, near Paris, in 1891, just short of his seventy-third birthday. Works His most notable works were the five concertos symphoniques, essentially symphonies with piano obbligato. The first one, in D minor, is lost; the others (not in the concert repertoire, but available in modern recordings) are: Concerto Symphonique No. 2 in B minor, Op. 22 (1844) Concerto Symphonique No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 45 (c. 1846) Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102 (c. 1852) Concerto Symphonique No. 5 in C minor, Op. 123 (c. 1867) The only one of Litolff's compositions still performed at all regularly is the somewhat Mendelssohnian scherzo from the Fourth Concerto Symphonique, although his music was admired by Franz Liszt and he was the dedicatee of Liszt's own First Piano Concerto. Tingyue Jiang began recording some of his solo piano music in 2023. Litolff's Drame symphonique No. 1 Maximilien Robespierre, Op. 55, was one of the works conducted on Christmas Eve 1925 by Yuri Fayer at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to accompany the world's first showing of Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin. References Sources Blair, Ted M., Cooper, Thomas: "Litolff, Henry (Charles)" in Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy External links Henry Litolff on data.bnf.fr Henry Litolff Piano Trio No.1 in d minor, Op.47 Soundbites and discussion of work (with score) William Melton - Henry Litolff: Piano Music, notes to Toccata CD TOCC0666 (2023) 1818 births 1891 deaths 19th-century British composers 19th-century classical composers 19th-century classical pianists British classical pianists British male classical composers British male pianists British Romantic composers Male classical pianists Musicians from London