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Liszt and Virtuosity (Hardcover)
Robert Doran; Contributions by David Keep, Dolores Pesce, Jim Samson, Jonathan Dunsby, …
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R3,464
Discovery Miles 34 640
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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 Jaƫll. 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.
Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This book, written by a pianist who has performed the Sonata extensively, includes a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition and clears away some of the persisent myths regarding program music in Liszt's output. The central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, discuss various interpretative approaches, while the concluding chapter treats the performance practice and performing history of the work. This is the first book to elucidate this ground-breaking piece for the general reader.
Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This book, written by a pianist who has performed the Sonata extensively, includes a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition and clears away some of the persisent myths regarding program music in Liszt's output. The central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, discuss various interpretative approaches, while the concluding chapter treats the performance practice and performing history of the work. This is the first book to elucidate this ground-breaking piece for the general reader.
This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz
Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written
by some of the leading specialists in the field of
nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt's piano
music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his
output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship
too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book
offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an
accessible form. Katharine Ellis, Alexander Rehding and James
Deaville present the biographical and intellectual aspects of
Liszt's legacy, Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give
a detailed account of Liszt's piano music - including approaches to
performance - Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt's Lieder, and Reeves
Shulstad and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.
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