Franz Liszt and His World /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Botstein, Leon,
Deaville, James,
Gibbs, Christopher H.,
Gooley, Dana,
Harwell Celenza, Anna,
Kleinertz, Rainer,
Minor, Ryan,
Youens, Susan,
HerausgeberIn:
Gibbs, Christopher H.,
Gooley, Dana,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2006
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (608 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Permissions and Credits
  • Preface
  • PART I. ESSAYS
  • Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination
  • Heine, Liszt, and the Song of the Future
  • The Battle Against Instrumental Virtuosity in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Prophet and Populace in Liszt's "Beethoven" Cantatas
  • "Just Two Words. Enormous Success" Liszt's 1838 Vienna Concerts
  • Liszt, Wagner, and Unfolding Form: Orpheus and the Genesis of Tristan und Isolde
  • Publishing Paraphrases and Creating Collectors
  • PART II. BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS
  • Liszt on the Artist in Society
  • The First Biography: Joseph d'Ortigue on Franz Liszt at Age Twenty-Three
  • Ludwig Rellstab's. Biographical Sketch of Liszt
  • From the Biographer's Workshop: Lina Ramann's Questionnaires to Liszt
  • PART III. CRITICISM AND RECEPTION
  • Fétis's Review of the Transcendental Etudes
  • Heinrich Heine on Liszt
  • "Even His Critics Must Concede": Press Accounts of Liszt at the Bonn Beethoven Festival
  • Defending Liszt: Felix Draeseke on the Symphonic Poems
  • PART IV. REFLECTIONS ON FRANZ LISZT
  • A Mirror to the Nineteenth Century
  • Index
  • Notes on the Contributors

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