Reflections On Liszt

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717022
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Liszt written by Alan Walker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of the great composer and pianist. Topics include Liszt's contributions to the Lied, the lifelong impact of his encounter with Beethoven, his influence on students who became famous in their own right, his accomplishments in transcribing and editing the works of other composers, and his innovative piano technique. One chapter is devoted to the Sonata in B Minor, perhaps Liszt's single most celebrated composition. Walker draws heavily on Liszt's astonishingly large personal correspondence with other composers, critics, pianists, and prominent public figures. All the essays reveal Walker's broad and deep knowledge of Liszt and Romantic music generally and, in some cases, his impatience with contemporary performance practice.

Author : Jonathan Kregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521117771
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liszt as Transcriber written by Jonathan Kregor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing illuminating insights into Liszt's working methods, this book investigates the composer's transcriptions in their musical, cultural, and historical contexts.

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828619
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franz Liszt and His World written by Christopher H. Gibbs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-29 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbé, he reinvented the concert experience, advanced a progressive agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, rethought the possibilities of church music and the oratorio, and transmitted the foundations of modern pianism. The essays brought together in Franz Liszt and His World advance our understanding of the composer with fresh perspectives and an emphasis on historical contexts. Rainer Kleinertz examines Wagner's enthusiasm for Liszt's symphonic poem Orpheus; Christopher Gibbs discusses Liszt's pathbreaking Viennese concerts of 1838; Dana Gooley assesses Liszt against the backdrop of antivirtuosity polemics; Ryan Minor investigates two cantatas written in honor of Beethoven; Anna Celenza offers new insights about Liszt's experience of Italy; Susan Youens shows how Liszt's songs engage with the modernity of Heinrich Heine's poems; James Deaville looks at how publishers sustained Liszt's popularity; and Leon Botstein explores Liszt's role in the transformation of nineteenth-century preoccupations regarding religion, the nation, and art. Franz Liszt and His World also includes key biographical and critical documents from Liszt's lifetime, which open new windows on how Liszt was viewed by his contemporaries and how he wished to be viewed by posterity. Introductions to and commentaries on these documents are provided by Peter Bloom, José Bowen, James Deaville, Allan Keiler, Rainer Kleinertz, Ralph Locke, Rena Charnin Mueller, and Benjamin Walton.

Author : Lina Schmalhausen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801440762
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Franz Liszt written by Lina Schmalhausen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lina Schmalhausen, his student, caregiver, and close companion, recorded in her diary a graphic description of her teacher's illness and death. Alan Walker here presents this never-before-published account of Liszt's demise in the summer of 1886.".

Author : Franz Liszt
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613105460
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Chopin written by Franz Liszt and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernst Burger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691091334
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franz Liszt written by Ernst Burger and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documentary biography of the admired performer and composer presents new information on his life and work, testimonies of his contemporaries, and an exceptional range of illustrations

Author : Evgeny Kissin
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1512602612
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs and Reflections written by Evgeny Kissin and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evgeny Kissin is an internationally renowned classical pianist admired for his interpretations of the repertoires of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. The intensity of Kissin's thinking animates this candid memoir, illuminating his astonishing memory, his fondness for his family and teachers, and his artistic sense of self. Memoirs and Reflections chronicles Kissin's musical education and his early career. His writing is infused with his lifelong engagement with music: an obsessive love that captured, challenged, and nurtured him from a young age. He recounts fortuitous events and serendipitous encounters with remarkable musicians and conductors, including Herbert von Karajan. This book shows Kissin to be surprisingly modest and down-to-earth in spite of his astonishing gift. He writes of his family and friends with tender affection and touching detail. Reading this intimate memoir is like having a private audience with the great pianist himself.

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193739
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Light on Liszt and His Music written by Alan Walker and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Liszt Studies series looks at discoveries about the composer's life and work.

Author : Franz Liszt
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Chopin written by Franz Liszt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt illustrates what romanticism is all about, which is not so much a biography of Chopin as it is a way to better understand Liszt and the environment of his time. Although critics of Liszt's book criticized it for various literary violations, it is not without its merits. There are many things worth learning about these two great pianists of all the time, Chopin and Liszt within its pages.

Author : Susanne Dunlap
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416539646
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liszt's Kiss written by Susanne Dunlap and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic story of a young female pianist in cholera-ravaged Paris of 1832, whose own tragedy leaves her susceptible to the passions and scandals of the composer Franz Liszt At the height of the Romantic era in Paris, there was no bigger celebrity than the composer and pianist Franz Liszt. A fiery and gorgeous Hungarian, he made women swoon at soirees and left a trail of broken hearts behind him. Anne, a countess and talented young pianist whose mother has just died of cholera, hears Franz Liszt in concert and is swept up in his allure. The enigmatic Marie d'Agoult, a friend of Anne's late mother, takes her under her wing and introduces her to the artistic world -- despite the objections of Anne's sullen and sorrowful father. Anne soon finds herself in the midst of dangerous intrigues, discovering a family secret so shocking that her father will go to any lengths to protect it. With the ominous presence of Paris's most deadly epidemic looming over every turbulent event, Liszt's Kiss is a rich evocation of a remarkable period as seen through the eyes of a sensitive young artist.