This final volume in Liszt's Annees de pelerinage in the Urtext edition by renowned Liszt scholar, Leslie Howard, contains the Troisieme Annee - Italie S163, together with Trois Odes funebres S516, S516a & S517. Although the Odes funebres are not originally part of the Annees they have been included in this volume because they form a musical and spiritual bridge between Annees II and III. Together, these works demonstrate a character not met elsewhere in the great music literature of the nineteenth century. The thinning out of the style, almost to the point of deliberate barrenness, and the simultaneous impression of avant-garde pioneering and the reflection in solitude, even loneliness, that comes with age are particular to Liszt.