[PDF] Liszt Sonata In B Minor eBook

Author : Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521469630

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Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This handbook opens with a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition - which include some well-known pieces that, hitherto, have been unrecognised as sonata forms - and clears away some of the persistent myths regarding programme music in Liszt's output. In the central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, Kenneth Hamilton discusses various interpretative approaches, arguing that the contradictory writings on the subject stem from the deliberate formal ambiguity of the piece itself - one reason for its perennial fascination, perhaps. The book concludes with a chapter on the performance practice and the performing history of the work, which should be of particular interest to pianists.

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501717022

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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 : Franz Liszt
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457475197

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Expertly arranged Piano Solo by Franz Liszt from the Kalmus Edition series. These Etudes are from the Romantic era. (Lamento, Leggierezza, Sospiro)

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 1985-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780769240985

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The six "Musical Moments" Opus 16 are a set of separate solo works for piano composed by Rachmaninoff in 1896. They present forms characteristic of previous musical eras, such as nocturne, song without words, barcarolle, etude, and theme and variations. Titles: No. 1 in B-Flat Minor * No. 2 in E-Flat Minor * No. 3 in B Minor * No. 4 in E Minor * No. 5 in D-Flat Major * No. 6 in C Major.

Author : Paul Merrick
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 1987-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521326278

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This study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Liszt and his music aims to restore a balanced view of both man and artist. In contrast to the familiar portrayal of the virtuoso pianist, Liszt is considered here as a serious man of ideas: in tracing the composer's relationships and attitudes to the twin themes of revolution and religion, Paul Merrick finds much of Liszt's music, both secular and sacred, to be inspired by the same deeply felt religious conviction that also governed his private life from an early age. The first part of the book is primarily biographical and considers Liszt's reactions to the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, his relationship with the Abbe Lamennais, the Comtesse d' Agoult, Princess Wittgenstein and Wagner, and contains the first convincing explanation for the sudden cancellation of Liszt's marriage to Princess Wittgenstein. The remaining sections consider the church music and the programmatic music that is related to this.

Author : Gerard Carter and Martin Adler
Publisher : epubli GmbH
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783844208429

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A discovery which opens a new chapter in the Liszt Sonata research.