The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (Cambridge Companions to Music)
Cambridge University Press, 7/15/2010
EAN 9780521644624, ISBN10: 0521644623
Paperback, 300 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
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.
1. The romantic artist Katharine Ellis
2. Inventing Liszt's life
early biography and autobiography Alexander Rehding
3. Liszt in the twentieth century James Deaville
4. Liszt's early and Weimar piano works Kenneth Hamilton
5. Liszt's late piano works
a survey James M. Baker
6. Liszt's late piano works
larger forms James M. Baker
7. Liszt's piano concerti
a lost tradition Anna Celenza
8. Performing Liszt's piano music Kenneth Hamilton
9. Liszt's Lieder Monika Hennemann
10. Liszt's symphonic poems and symphonies Reeves Shulstad
11. Liszt's sacred choral music Dolores Pesce.
'... a reliable survey of most of Liszt's music ... concise and thought-provoking, too.' BBC Music Magazine