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The Liszt Companion

Ben Arnold
The Liszt Companion Book PDF

Author : Ben Arnold
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055207669

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Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense amount of secondary literature written about it. Highly regarded critics and scholars write for both a general and academic audience, covering all of Liszt's major compositions as well as the neglected gems found among his choral and chamber works. Following an outline of the subject's life, The Liszt Companion goes on to detail Liszt's critical reception in the German press, his writings and letters, his piano and orchestral works, his neglected secular choral works, and his major organ compositions. Also explored here are his little-known chamber pieces and his songs. An exhaustive bibliography and index of works conclude the volume. This work will both elucidate aspects of Liszt's most famous work and revive interest in those pieces that deserve and require greater attention.

The Liszt Companion

Ben Arnold
The Liszt Companion Book PDF

Author : Ben Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313092145

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The Liszt Companion by Ben Arnold Pdf

Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense amount of secondary literature written about it. Highly regarded critics and scholars write for both a general and academic audience, covering all of Liszt's major compositions as well as the neglected gems found among his choral and chamber works. Following an outline of the subject's life, The Liszt Companion goes on to detail Liszt's critical reception in the German press, his writings and letters, his piano and orchestral works, his neglected secular choral works, and his major organ compositions. Also explored here are his little-known chamber pieces and his songs. An exhaustive bibliography and index of works conclude the volume. This work will both elucidate aspects of Liszt's most famous work and revive interest in those pieces that deserve and require greater attention.

The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

Kenneth Hamilton
The Cambridge Companion to Liszt Book PDF

Author : Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139825757

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The Cambridge Companion to Liszt by Kenneth Hamilton Pdf

This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.

Liszt as Transcriber

Jonathan Kregor
Liszt as Transcriber Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Kregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521117777

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Liszt as Transcriber by Jonathan Kregor Pdf

Providing illuminating insights into Liszt's working methods, this book investigates the composer's transcriptions in their musical, cultural, and historical contexts.

Franz Liszt

Michael Saffle
Franz Liszt Book PDF

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415998390

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Franz Liszt by Michael Saffle Pdf

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Music of Franz Liszt

Michael Saffle
The Music of Franz Liszt Book PDF

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351243315

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The Music of Franz Liszt by Michael Saffle Pdf

Much of Franz Liszt's musical legacy has often been dismissed as 'trivial’ or 'merely showy,' more or less peripheral contributions to nineteenth-century European culture. But Liszt was a mainstream composer in ways most of his critics have failed to acknowledge; he was also an incessant and often extremely successful innovator. Liszt's mastery of fantasy and sonata traditions, his painstaking settings of texts ranging from erotic verse to portions of the Catholic liturgy, and the remarkable self-awareness he demonstrated even in many of his most 'entertaining' pieces: all these things stamp him not only as a master of Romanticism and an early Impressionist, but as a precursor of Postmodern 'pop.' Liszt's Music places Liszt in historical and cultural focus. At the same time, it examines his principal contributions to musical literature -- from his earliest operatic paraphrases to his final explorations of harmonic and formal possibilities. Liszt's compositional methods, including his penchant for revision, problems associated with early editions of some of his works, and certain aspects of class and gender issues are also discussed. The first book-length assessment of Liszt as composer since Humphrey Searle’s 1956 volume, Liszt's Music is illustrated with well over 100 musical examples.

Franz Liszt and His World

Christopher H. Gibbs,Dana Gooley
Franz Liszt and His World Book PDF

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs,Dana Gooley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.

Franz Liszt

Erika Quinn
Franz Liszt Book PDF

Author : Erika Quinn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004279223

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Franz Liszt by Erika Quinn Pdf

Quinn’s biography of the musician Franz Liszt (1811-1886) explores his creation of various subjective stances, anchored in ideas about nation, religion, and art. These subjectivities helped Liszt forward his artistic and aesthetic agendas.

Reading Franz Liszt

Paul Roberts
Reading Franz Liszt Book PDF

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538143353

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Reading Franz Liszt by Paul Roberts Pdf

A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism’s piano superstar. Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music immerses readers in Liszt’s world through a vivid exploration of his most beloved pieces and the literature that inspired them—from Petrarch’s love poetry to the sensibilities of Byron, Sénancour, Goethe, and others. The origins of artistic inspiration can be obscure. However, for Franz Liszt, literary quotations in his scores provide fascinating insights into the sources of his creative imagination, revealing a breadth of reading that inspired some of the greatest piano music of all time. A knowledge of the writers whom Liszt revered and often quoted at length enriches an understanding and appreciation of his music. Roberts shows how Liszt in his pioneering piano works created a new concept of musical expression comparable to the emotional and dramatic power of the opera and novel. This book leads us into the essence of Liszt’s poetic world, revealing the relevance of his literary inspiration for today’s listeners as well as for performers coming to terms with its expressive demands.

Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano

Małgorzata Gamrat
Franz Liszt s Songs for Voice and Piano Book PDF

Author : Małgorzata Gamrat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004548862

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Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano by Małgorzata Gamrat Pdf

How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt’s songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt’s songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer’s broadly understood song-writing technique – both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer’s workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting.

The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt

Anonim
The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461664093

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The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt by Anonim Pdf

Shortly after Chopin's death in 1849, Franz Liszt wrote the first full-length biography of his fellow composer. As one of Chopin's friends, Liszt created a unique biography that allows the reader to experience the world of Chopin through the memories of one of his most adamant supporters. This translation is the starting volume of Janita Hall-Swadley's The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, the very first production of Liszt's entire literary collection in English. In addition to the English translation of Liszt's Gesammelte Schriften, collected and edited by Lina Ramann and published in Germany in 1880/83, each volume contains a Foreword written by a scholar and expert on Liszt and that volume's topic. New research and perspectives in the field of Liszt studies are presented in the introduction to each book in the series, and the translations themselves are enhanced with annotations in accordance with modern standards of musicological research. In Volume 1, Liszt provides insight into Chopin's early childhood and musical development, the cultural traditions and customs that inspired the polonaises and mazurkas, and the final days and hours of the composer before he died. Liszt also offers the reader a psychological view of the composer that had not been seriously undertaken by anyone prior to Liszt. Although Liszt offered what some scholars regard as perhaps an idealized image of the composer, readers will enjoy the personal anecdotes and memories that only one close to the late composer could have known. Liszt even takes on the sensitive topic of the love affair between Chopin and the great French woman writer George Sand, much to the displeasure of the former's family. The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt: Volume 1: F. Chopin includes a thorough discussion of Liszt as an author and the tainted past that surrounded his writings beginning in the 1930s. The much neglected topic of Liszt’s relationship with his publishers is explored, and the critical questionnaires that Liszt had sent to Chopin’s sister in preparation for writing the biography are included. Finally, a discussion of the professional and personal relationship between Chopin and Liszt is provided, making this volume a valuable addition to the study of both composers.

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Mark Kroll
Johann Nepomuk Hummel Book PDF

Author : Mark Kroll
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461660088

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Johann Nepomuk Hummel by Mark Kroll Pdf

This full-length biography of the pianist and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) places his life, career, and music compositions within the context of the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred during his lifetime and afterwards.

The Cambridge Companion to the Lied

James Parsons
The Cambridge Companion to the Lied Book PDF

Author : James Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 052180471X

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Liszt Recomposed

Nicolás Puyané
Liszt Recomposed Book PDF

Author : Nicolás Puyané
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781837650477

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Liszt Recomposed by Nicolás Puyané Pdf

Explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces. Franz Liszt (1811-86) is mostly known for his virtuosic piano works, but his compositional achievements in the genre of song have so far been neglected. Many of Liszt's Lieder exist in multiple versions, sometimes radically altered, and many with equal claims to 'authenticity'. This has sometimes been viewed as a barrier to performance and a hindrance to scholarly scrutiny. Nicolás Puyané now redresses this imbalance and draws attention to this rich and varied corpus of works. Liszt's songs contain a myriad of intertextual links, not just with the songs of other composers, but also with Liszt's own works in other genres and his own revisions. By focusing on the multi-version songs, the book uncovers how these intertextual relationships have evolved over time. Introducing the concept of "textual fluidity", the book explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision, interpreting the work as being the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces: for instance, the contemporaneous reception of Liszt's early Lieder, or the change in Liszt's performing and compositional environments from his virtuoso to his Weimar years. The book then offers close readings of selected songs, including the Goethe and Schiller Lieder, by applying the concept of textual fluidity. Its findings will impact the way in which we see Urtext editions, arguing instead for an online fluid-text edition as an ideal resource with which to study Liszt's multi-version compositions.

Franz Liszt

Thomas Tapper
Franz Liszt Book PDF

Author : Thomas Tapper
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066101138

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Franz Liszt by Thomas Tapper Pdf

"Franz Liszt: The Story of a Boy Who Became a Great Pianist and Teacher" by Thomas Tapper Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era and remains one of the most popular composers in modern concert piano repertoire.This book does this genius justice by bringing his story to the masses.