Late works of Franz Liszt to Saint-Saëns. The three czárdás that Liszt wrote—titled "Czárdás", "Czárdás obstinée" and "Czárdás macabre"—are less freely treated than the Hungarian Rhapsodies and remain more specifically Hungarian than gypsy in thematic material. Their spare lines, angular rhythms and advanced harmonies show these pieces to be direct ancestors of Bartók's work. Because of these attributes, the czárdás are considered by Liszt scholars among the more interesting of the composer's late output. The same, some critics argue, cannot be said as uniformly about his Hungarian Rhapsodies 16-19, composed after he had neglected the genre 30 years. Of these four late rhapsodies, only the
Piano ballad Op. 122 (1852–53) which were written for piano and voice. Claude Debussy, a later composer, also wrote for piano and voice with his "Trois Ballades de François Villon" (, 1910). Works for piano and orchestra also bearing the title "ballad" have been written. These include Fauré's "Ballade", op. 19, which was written in 1881, and Charles Koechlin's "Ballade" for piano and orchestra, op. 50, written between 1911–1919. This work also exists as a solo work for piano. Piano ballad In 19th century romantic music, a piano ballad is a piece for solo piano written in a balletic narrative style, often