There were two periods in Liszt's life when he worked intensively at transcribing Beethoven's symphonies for the piano: between 1835 and 1843, and between 1863 and 1865. In the earlier period he produced the piano versions of symphonies nos. 5, 6, and 7, and the second movement of symphony no. 3 (Marche fun?bre). In the later period, Liszt wrote the piano transcriptions of the other symphonies, and also revised the earlier 'piano scores' as he himself termed the piano transcriptions, a much richer genre than a mere piano reduction.

Supplementary volume 11 of the New Liszt Edition contains Symphonies nos. 5-7, and an early version of the Marche fun?bre, and thus makes it possible for performers and musicologists to study Liszt's earlier and later piano versions of these Beethoven symphonies by placing them side by side.

The volume includes a detailed preface in German, English, and Hungarian, including new research findings and manuscript facsimiles, as well as critical notes in English. Along with the cloth-bound edition, a practical paperback version has also been published, the contents of which are identical, but for the omission of the critical notes.