Stacked fifths, E - B - F-sharp - C-sharp, imitate the devil tuning his violin in the first of four pieces by this composer based on Nikolaus Lenau's version of (*) Faust.
This composer counted an arrangement of the quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto among his "concert paraphrases". He included musical depictions of Michelangelo's The Thinker and sonnets by Petrarch in a suite subtitled "Italy", following one subtitled "Switzerland". Stacked fifths, E - B - F-sharp - C-sharp, imitate the devil tuning his violin in the first of four pieces by this composer based on Nikolaus Lenau's version of (*) Faust. This composer of the Years of Pilgrimage and the Mephisto Waltzes portrayed the title character being dragged by a horse in "Mazeppa", the fourth of his Transcendental Études. For 10 points, name this 19th-century piano virtuoso who composed the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
This composer counted an arrangement of the quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto among his "concert paraphrases".
Franz Liszt [or Franz Ritter von Liszt; or Liszt Ferenc in either order]