Franz Liszt

Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300219463

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Franz Liszt by Oliver Hilmes Pdf

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt’s Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon. Whereas previous biographies have focused primarily on the composer’s musical contributions, Hilmes showcases Liszt the man in all his many shades and personal reinventions: child prodigy, Romantic eccentric, fervent Catholic, actor, lothario, celebrity, businessman, genius, and extravagant show-off. The author immerses the reader in the intrigues of the nineteenth-century European glitterati (including Liszt’s powerful patrons, the monstrous Wagner clan) while exploring the true, complex face of the artist and the soul of his music. No other Liszt biography in English is as colorful, witty, and compulsively readable, or reveals as much about the true nature of this extraordinary, outrageous talent.

Author : Franz Liszt,Julio Esteban
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457443312

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Technical Exercises (Complete) by Franz Liszt,Julio Esteban Pdf

This edition is comprised of 86 different technical exercises composed by Liszt during 1868 to 1880. Liszt intended these highly challenging exercises to build greater performance skills in virtuoso pianists. The complete series consists of twelve volumes, each one dealing with a different pianistic problem. This edition has been compiled from the original set to present the exercises in a reasonable length without harming the essence and effectiveness of the original work.

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs,Dana Gooley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400828616

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Franz Liszt and His World by Christopher H. Gibbs,Dana Gooley Pdf

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 : Franz Liszt
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613105467

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Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt Pdf

Author : Humphrey Searle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486786407

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The Music of Liszt by Humphrey Searle Pdf

The most authoritative English-language study of Liszt's oeuvre, this survey by a noted musicologist examines the works in chronological order. Subjects include romantic pieces, symphonic poems, songs, symphonies, and other compositions.

Author : Franz Liszt,Agnes Street-Klindworth
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1576470067

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Franz Liszt and Agnes Street-Klindworth by Franz Liszt,Agnes Street-Klindworth Pdf

This new critical edition contains all 160 extant letters in both English and French, transcribed from the most reliable sources and carefully annotated by a scholar of increasing reputation. Also included are - biographical information about Agnes herself; historical and critical prefaces; detailed notes for each letter; linking text between letters; analytical tables of the correspondence; an extensive bibliography and an index.

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801494214

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Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker Pdf

The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning twenty-five years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival."--Elliot Ravetz, Time "The prose is so lively that the reader is often swept along by the narrative.... This three-part work... is now the definitive work on Liszt in English and belongs in all music collections."--Library Journal

Author : Carl Lachmund
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Pianists
ISBN : 0945193564

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Living with Liszt by Carl Lachmund Pdf

Carl V. Lachmund (1857-1928) was an American pupil of Liszt; he studied with the Hungarian master in Weimar between the years 1882-1884. During that time he kept a diary which eventually ran to some 700 pages. This document gives one of the mo st exhaustive accounts of Liszt's keyboard instruction extant. Some time after World War I, and in response toa demand from a number of musicians with an interest in the matter, Lachmund decided to turn his diary into a book about his daily life with Liszt. In order to gather additional background material about a period now long past, he wrote to more than 200 musicians in America and Europe who had had some personal contact with the composer, and invited them to share their personal reminiscences. The book never appeared and his papers came to rest in the New York Public Library, with whose cooperation this book is now being published.The Liszt scholar Alan Walker has undertaken the task of introducing, editing, and annotating the Lachmund papers. He calls the diary an irreplaceable source of first-hand material which throws fresh light on the way Liszt taught the piano. Liszt also emerges from these pages as a great and noble human being. This book will interest all teachers, performers, and students of the period. It represents a major contribution to nineteenth-century studies.

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Composers
ISBN : 151821262X

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Franz Liszt by Alan Walker Pdf

Author : John Spurling
Publisher : Seagull World Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 190649794X

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A Book of Liszts by John Spurling Pdf

The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist--whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople--made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszt's own innovative compositions and sparkling piano transcriptions of other composers' work, John Spurling here takes up the ambitious task of writing a fictionalized biography of Liszt's life. Liszt himself once said, "My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact," and Spurling's fifteen self-contained chapters--themselves virtuoso performances in a variety of styles from a variety of viewpoints--capture precisely this notion of innovation and creativity. Spurling tells of Liszt's mesmeric effect on audiences, his notorious love affairs with remarkable women, and his fraught friendship with Richard Wagner, who deeply offended Liszt by seducing and eventually marrying his daughter Cosima. Inspired by Spurling's own fascination with Liszt's music, A Book of Liszts is a highly original, imaginative, and multifaceted portrait of a humorous, romantic, and passionate genius whose work and life is still not as well known as it deserves to be.

Author : Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3516829

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Franz Liszt by Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort Pdf

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801484537

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Franz Liszt: The final years, 1861-1886 by Alan Walker Pdf

This is the third in a set of three books following the life and achievements of Franz Liszt. This volume focuses on his final years, from 1861-1886.

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Composers
ISBN : OCLC:727029243

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Franz Liszt by Alan Walker Pdf

Author : Franz Liszt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Composers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044039671300

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Letters of Franz Liszt: From Rome to the end by Franz Liszt Pdf

Author : Wilhelm Jerger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253222737

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The Piano Master Classes of Franz Liszt, 1884–1886 by Wilhelm Jerger Pdf

The diaries of August Göllerich, secretary and student of Franz Liszt, provide a first-hand account of the Master's approach to piano teaching, his preferences and prejudices both musical and social, and his way of encouraging and befriending his students. They contain the mature Liszt's suggestions for interpreting his own works and those of his friend Chopin and of many other composers, offering invaluable advice from the most spectacular pianist of the 19th century. Pianists interested in the history of performance practice and the Romantic era will learn from and take delight in this volume.