Liszt in context

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    • Cormac, Joanne

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Liszt in context

edited by Joanne Cormac

(Composers in context)

Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Bibliography: p. 316-328

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Liszt in Context explores the political, social, philosophical and professional currents that surrounded Franz Liszt and illuminates the competing forces that influenced his music. Liszt was immersed in the religious, political and cultural debates of his day, and moved between institutions, places, and social circles with ease. All of this makes for a rich contextual tapestry against which Liszt composed some of the most iconic, popular, and also contentious music of the nineteenth century. His significance and astonishing reach cannot be over-stated, and his presence in nineteenth-century European culture, and his continuing influence into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, are overwhelming. The focus on context, reception, and legacy that this volume provides reveals the multifaceted nature of Liszt's impact during his lifetime and beyond.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Part I. People and Places: 1. Family background Adrienne Kaczmarczyk
  • 2. Teachers Paul Bertagnolli
  • 3. Paris Bryan Whitelaw
  • 4. Italy Anna Harwell Celenza
  • 5. Liszt and Wagner David Trippett
  • 6. The new German school James Deaville
  • 7. Weimar Joanne Cormac
  • 8. Liszt and his contemporaries Anne MacGregor
  • 9. Liszt in Hungary Lynn Hooker
  • Part II. Society thought and culture: 10. The 'War of the Romantics' David Larkin
  • 11. Visual art and artists Andrew Haringer
  • 12. Literature and literary heroes Jonathan Kregor
  • 13. Liszt, the women and the European salon culture of the nineteenth century Ulrike Muller
  • 14. Liszt as writer Dorothea Redepenning
  • 15. Patronage: the court Anna Harwell Celenza
  • 16. Liszt and the network of revolution Malou Haine and Bruno Moysan
  • 17. Liszt's national identity: What else is new? Shay Loya
  • 18. Liszt and religion Eftychia Papanikolaou
  • Part III. Performance and composition: 19. Pianos and piano builders Andrew Haringer
  • 20. Liszt on the road: The rise of the modern virtuoso pianist Christopher Gibbs
  • 21. Virtuosity Jonathan Kregor
  • 22. Improvisation Adrienne Kaczmarczyk
  • 23. Transcription Jonathan Kregor
  • 24. Liszt as conductor Donna M. Di Grazia
  • 25. Publishers Adrienne Kaczmarczyk
  • 26. Genre Joanne Cormac
  • Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 27. Pupils: Liszt as teacher Jonathan Kregor
  • 28. Critics James Deaville
  • 29. Lateness in context Shay Loya
  • 30. Liszt and the 20th and 21st centuries Dorothea Redepenning
  • 31. Life-writing Joanne Cormac
  • 32. Iconography Alan Davison
  • 33. Liszt in film Joanne Cormac
  • Index.

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