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Franz Liszt's colleagues considered him to be one of the most
accomplished and innovative practitioners in the field of musical
reproduction, a reputation for which he is still admired today.
Yet, while his transcriptions are widely performed, few studies
have investigated the role that transcriptions played in Liszt's
artistry, to say nothing of the impact they had on the music-making
experience of his day. Using a host of interdisciplinary methods
and primary source materials, this book provides a comprehensive
survey of Liszt's lifelong involvement with the transcription, in
which he assumed the roles of composer, collaborator, propagandist,
commemorator, philosopher, and artist while simultaneously
disseminating - often critically - the music of Beethoven, Berlioz,
Schubert, Wagner, and other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
composers. By recognizing transcription as an extraordinarily
flexible tool for Liszt and his contemporaries, Liszt as
Transcriber provides numerous musical, cultural, and historical
contexts for this fundamentally important practice of the period.
Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious
novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range
that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the
literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems,
the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups
of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In
this accessible Introduction, Jonathan Kregor explores program
music's ideas and repertoire, discussing both well-known and less
familiar pieces by an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century
composers. Setting program music in the context of the intellectual
debates of the period, Kregor presents the criticism of writers
like A. B. Marx and Hanslick to reveal program music's growth,
dissemination, and reception. This comprehensive overview features
numerous illustrations and music examples and provides detailed
case studies of battle music, Shakespeare settings, and Goethe's
Faust.
Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious
novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range
that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the
literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems,
the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups
of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In
this accessible Introduction, Jonathan Kregor explores program
music's ideas and repertoire, discussing both well-known and less
familiar pieces by an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century
composers. Setting program music in the context of the intellectual
debates of the period, Kregor presents the criticism of writers
like A. B. Marx and Hanslick to reveal program music's growth,
dissemination, and reception. This comprehensive overview features
numerous illustrations and music examples and provides detailed
case studies of battle music, Shakespeare settings, and Goethe's
Faust.
Franz Liszt's colleagues considered him to be one of the most
accomplished and innovative practitioners in the field of musical
reproduction, a reputation for which he is still admired today.
Yet, while his transcriptions are widely performed, few studies
have investigated the role that transcriptions played in Liszt's
artistry, to say nothing of the impact they had on the music-making
experience of his day. Using a host of interdisciplinary methods
and primary source materials, this book provides a comprehensive
survey of Liszt's lifelong involvement with the transcription, in
which he assumed the roles of composer, collaborator, propagandist,
commemorator, philosopher, and artist while simultaneously
disseminating - often critically - the music of Beethoven, Berlioz,
Schubert, Wagner, and other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
composers. By recognizing transcription as an extraordinarily
flexible tool for Liszt and his contemporaries, Liszt as
Transcriber provides numerous musical, cultural, and historical
contexts for this fundamentally important practice of the period.
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Liszt and Virtuosity (Hardcover)
Robert Doran; Contributions by David Keep, Dolores Pesce, Jim Samson, Jonathan Dunsby, …
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R3,064
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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. In the annals of
music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of
virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose
hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense of
awe-inspiring excitement andan icon whose star power radiated far
beyond the realm of music, Liszt was, along with his early model,
Paganini, among the first major performer-composers to define
himself principally by virtuosity. Featuring new essays by an
international group of preeminent scholars, Liszt and Virtuosity
offers a reevaluation of the concept and practices of virtuosity as
shaped and defined in Liszt's multifaceted oeuvre, as well as a
reconsiderationof Liszt's relation to other major and lesser-known
musical figures, including Czerny, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms,
Debussy, and Marie Jaëll. Set in the context of larger trends
within the fields of music history, musicanalysis, intellectual
history, and performance studies, these capacious explorations
demonstrate that Liszt's uniqueness and significance resided in his
ability to transform virtuosity into a revolutionary musical force,
pushingthe piano aesthetic to the limits of sound and poetic
meaning.
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