Franz Liszt : a story of Central European subjectivity / Erika Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Erika, author.

Series:

Studies in Central European histories ; Volume 59.

Studies in Central European Histories, 1547-1217 ; Volume 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--Hungary--Biography.

Composers.

Music--Hungary--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Germany--19th century--History and criticism.

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.

Liszt, Franz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This biography of the musician Franz Liszt contributes to our understanding of national identity formation and its interaction with cosmopolitanism. Liszt exemplified the nineteenth-century quest for subjective definition and fulfillment. Seeking to gain agency, authority, and community, Liszt experimented with various subject positions from which to forward his goals. The stances he selected, anchored in ideas about nation, religion, and art, allowed him to retain his cosmopolitan sensibility while making specific aesthetic and creative claims. Quinn’s analysis of Liszt’s correspondence and musical criticism, as well as of contemporary reviews of his performances, compositions, and essays, demonstrates the lack of a nationalist exclusivity in Liszt’s life was a historical phenomenon rather than a personal quirk as previous scholarship has often claimed.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 The Virtuoso Prophet

2 The Hungarian Patriot

3 The Romantic Hero and the Kulturnation

4 The War of the Romantics

5 Composing a Nation-Church Bond in Hungary

6 The General German Music Association

Coda

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27922-9

OCLC:

890982339

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004279223 DOI