Liszt in context / edited by Joanne Cormac.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cormac, Joanne, editor.

Series:

Composers in context.

Composers in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886--Criticism and interpretation.

Liszt, Franz.

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

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Liszt in Context explores the political, social, philosophical and professional currents that surrounded Franz Liszt and illuminates the competing forces that influenced his music. Liszt was immersed in the religious, political and cultural debates of his day, and moved between institutions, places, and social circles with ease. All of this makes for a rich contextual tapestry against which Liszt composed some of the most iconic, popular, and also contentious music of the nineteenth century. His significance and astonishing reach cannot be over-stated, and his presence in nineteenth-century European culture, and his continuing influence into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, are overwhelming. The focus on context, reception, and legacy that this volume provides reveals the multifaceted nature of Liszt's impact during his lifetime and beyond.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Part I People and Places

Chapter 1 Family Background

Chapter 2 Liszt's Teachers

Adam Liszt (1776-1827)

Carl Czerny (1791-1857)

Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839)

Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)

Chapter 3 Paris

Chapter 4 Italy

Chapter 5 Liszt and Wagner

Early Encounters

From Lohengrin to Sardanapalo

Borrowings, Cosima and 'Bayreuth's Poodle'

Posterity

Chapter 6 The New German School

Chapter 7 Weimar

Chapter 8 Liszt and His Contemporaries

Liszt and Russian Composers

Liszt and Czech Composers

Chapter 9 Liszt in Hungary

Liszt's Rhapsodies Hongroises and the 'Gypsy Question'

Liszt's Larger-Scale 'Hungarian' Works and His Role in Hungarian Institution-Building

Liszt's Legacy in Hungary

Part II Society, Thought and Culture

Chapter 10 The 'War' of the Romantics

Chapter 11 Visual Art and Artists

Raphael and the Spiritual Mission of the Artist

Kaulbach and the Triumph of Christendom

Zichy and the Transcendence of Death

Conclusion

Chapter 12 Literature and Literary Heroes

French Romanticism

Byron

Weimar Classicists

Chapter 13 Liszt, Women and Salon Culture

The New Women of the Nineteenth-Century

Liszt: A New Man for the New Women

An Artist in a Net(work) of Salonnières

La Mara, Liszt and Women

Chapter 14 Liszt as a Writer

Chapter 15 Patronage: The Court

Athens of the North

Chapter 16 Liszt and the Networks of Revolution

Liszt, Marx, Engels, Herwegh and Lassalle

Aristocratic Patrons and Revolution

Chapter 17 Liszt's National Identity: What Else Is New?

A Contested Identity

Early Twenty-First Century Deconstructions.

Analysing National Identity in Music

Chapter 18 Liszt and Religion

Part III Performance and Composition

Chapter 19 Pianos and Piano Builders

French Pianos: The Érard and Boisselot Firms

Austrian Pianos: The Streicher and Bösendorfer Firms

American Pianos: The Chickering and Steinway Firms

Conclusion: Liszt's Favourite Piano?

Chapter 20 Liszt on the Road: The Rise of the Modern Virtuoso Pianist

Chapter 21 Virtuosity

Creating the Virtuoso

The Virtuoso as Composer

Virtuosity after Liszt

Chapter 22 Improvisation

Chapter 23 Transcription

Transcription as Commercial Product

Transcription as Artistic Product

Transcription as Showcase

Chapter 24 Liszt as Conductor

Chapter 25 Publishers

Chapter 26 Genre

Aesthetic Contexts

Synthesizing the Instrumental and the Conceptual

Part IV Reception and Legacy

Chapter 27 Pupils: Liszt as Teacher

Vienna and Paris, 1820s-1830s

Weimar: The 1850s

Weimar: The 1880s and Beyond

Chapter 28 Critics

Chapter 29 Lateness in Context

Liszt as the First Author of His Lateness Story

The Modernist Rehabilitation

Aesthetic Worth

A Possible Future for Liszt's Lateness

Chapter 30 Liszt and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Symphonic Poem

Pianistic Style

Musical Characteristics

Approaching the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 31 Life-Writing

Liszt the Biographer

Liszt in Biography

Chapter 32 Iconography

Chapter 33 Liszt in Film

Historical Accuracy versus Storytelling

Biographical Stereotypes I: Liszt as Actor or Charlatan

Biographical Stereotypes II: The Pianist as Lover

Music

Further Reading

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14.

Editions of Liszt's Works

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Liszt in context

ISBN:

1-108-38633-4

1-108-38993-7

1-108-37825-0

OCLC:

1259297118