[PDF] The Death Of Franz Liszt eBook

Author : Lina Schmalhausen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801440762

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Lina Schmalhausen, his student, caregiver, and close companion, recorded in her diary a graphic description of her teacher's illness and death. Alan Walker here presents this never-before-published account of Liszt's demise in the summer of 1886.".

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801484537

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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 : Franz Liszt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2024-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385561418

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300219466

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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 : James Huneker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752386541

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Reproduction of the original: Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Author : Christopher H. Gibbs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2010-08-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1400828619

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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 : Robert Doran
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580469396

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A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 31,96 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.