Hungarian Rhapsody No. 16 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 16 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 16, S.244/16, in A minor, is the sixteenth Hungarian Rhapsody composed by Franz Liszt for solo piano. Being one of the later Hungarian Rhapsodies, it was composed and published in 1882. The rhapsody, subtitled "Budapest Munkácsy-Festlichkeiten", has a duration of approximately five minutes and is dedicated to Mihály Munkácsy. It was arraged for piano four-hands by the composer himself, marked as S.622, published in the same year. The piece begins with an outset of the main theme, hovering around A Minor, but with a distinct ambiguity of tonality. This section ends with a
Rhapsodies for Orchestra idea and others take it up." Gantz added that it "worked out better in theory than in practice, though I liked the section in which the viola crooned over the orchestra’s 12-note ostinato." Likewise, Lawrence A. Johnson of the "Chicago Classical Review" called it "not one of Stucky’s more essential pieces" and noted that "Stucky’s debt to Witold Lutosławski [was] at times glaringly evident." Music critic Carla Rees similarly opined: Rhapsodies for Orchestra Rhapsodies for Orchestra is a single-movement orchestral composition by the American composer Steven Stucky. The work was jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the BBC