Franz Liszt and his world / edited by Christopher H. Gibbs and Dana Gooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibbs, Christopher Howard.

Gooley, Dana A. (Dana Andrew), 1969-

Series:

Bard Music Festival series.

Bard Music Festival series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--Biography.

Composers.

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.

Liszt, Franz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Permissions and Credits

Preface

PART I. ESSAYS

Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination / Harwell Celenza, Anna

Heine, Liszt, and the Song of the Future / Youens, Susan

The Battle Against Instrumental Virtuosity in the Early Nineteenth Century / Gooley, Dana

Prophet and Populace in Liszt's "Beethoven" Cantatas / Minor, Ryan

"Just Two Words. Enormous Success" Liszt's 1838 Vienna Concerts / Gibbs, Christopher H.

Liszt, Wagner, and Unfolding Form: Orpheus and the Genesis of Tristan und Isolde / Kleinertz, Rainer

Publishing Paraphrases and Creating Collectors / Deaville, James

PART II. BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS

Liszt on the Artist in Society

The First Biography: Joseph d'Ortigue on Franz Liszt at Age Twenty-Three

Ludwig Rellstab's. Biographical Sketch of Liszt

From the Biographer's Workshop: Lina Ramann's Questionnaires to Liszt

PART III. CRITICISM AND RECEPTION

Fétis's Review of the Transcendental Etudes

Heinrich Heine on Liszt

"Even His Critics Must Concede": Press Accounts of Liszt at the Bonn Beethoven Festival

Defending Liszt: Felix Draeseke on the Symphonic Poems

PART IV. REFLECTIONS ON FRANZ LISZT

A Mirror to the Nineteenth Century / Botstein, Leon

Index

Notes on the Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612730528

9781282730526

1282730525

9781400828616

1400828619

OCLC:

664565677