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Book SynopsisIn his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, and master teacher, Franz Liszt reinvented the concert experience, advanced an agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, and transmitted the foundations of modern pianism. Placing emphasis on historical contexts, this book aims to advance our understanding of the composer with fresh perspectives.
Trade Review"The book is eminently successful, not least because of Leon Botstein's magisterial concluding essay, which is perhaps the best summary of the composer's cultural legacy to have appeared in English... Apparently Liszt, of all 19th-century composers, is served particularly well by the collection format--perhaps due to the remarkable range of his activities."--Choice "This valuable compendium of essays...seeks to explain Liszt's extravagant and sweeping musical presence in Europe within a broader historical context...A compassionately put together tome, its modestly-priced 587 pages are more than deserving of a place in the Liszt fan's bookcase."--Mark Tanner, Classical Music Magazine "This volume is by far the most invigorating and useful anthology of Liszt studies in print."--David Trippett, MLA Notes
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Permissions and Credits, pg. xiii*Preface, pg. xv*Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination, pg. 3*Heine, Liszt, and the Song of the Future, pg. 39*The Battle Against Instrumental Virtuosity in the Early Nineteenth Century, pg. 75*Prophet and Populace in Liszt's "Beethoven" Cantatas, pg. 113*"Just Two Words. Enormous Success" Liszt's 1838 Vienna Concerts, pg. 167*Liszt, Wagner, and Unfolding Form: Orpheus and the Genesis of Tristan und Isolde, pg. 231*Publishing Paraphrases and Creating Collectors, pg. 255*Liszt on the Artist in Society, pg. 291*The First Biography: Joseph d'Ortigue on Franz Liszt at Age Twenty-Three, pg. 303*Ludwig Rellstab's. Biographical Sketch of Liszt, pg. 335*From the Biographer's Workshop: Lina Ramann's Questionnaires to Liszt, pg. 361*Fetis's Review of the Transcendental Etudes, pg. 427*Heinrich Heine on Liszt, pg. 441*"Even His Critics Must Concede": Press Accounts of Liszt at the Bonn Beethoven Festival, pg. 467*Defending Liszt: Felix Draeseke on the Symphonic Poems, pg. 485*A Mirror to the Nineteenth Century, pg. 517*Index, pg. 569*Notes on the Contributors, pg. 583
