Reflections on Liszt / / Alan Walker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Walker, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 6 charts/graphs, 121 musical examples, 17 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Beethoven’S Weihekuss Revisited -- 2. Liszt And The Beethoven Symphonies -- 3. Liszt And The Schubert Song Transcriptions -- 4. Schumann, Liszt, And The C Major Fantasie, Op. 17 -- 5. Liszt And His Pupils -- 6. Liszt’S Sonata In B Minor -- 7. Liszt’S and the Lied -- 8. Liszt As Editor -- 9. Liszt’S Technical Studies -- 10. Liszt The Writer On Music And Musicians -- Epilogue An Open Letter To Franz Liszt -- Sources -- Index