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Title Liszt in context / edited by Joanne Cormac
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Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series COCT Composers in context
Contents Part I. People and places. Family background / Adrienne Kaczmarczyk ; Liszt's teachers / Paul Bertagnolli ; Paris / Bryan A. Whitelaw ; Italy / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Liszt and Wagner / David Trippett ; The New German School / James Deaville ; Weimar / Joanne Cormac ; Liszt and his contemporaries / Anne Macgregor ; Liszt in Hungary / Lynn M. Hooker -- Part II. Society, thought and culture. The "war" of the Romantics / David Larkin ; Visual art and artists / Andrew Haringer ; Literature and literary heroes / Jonathan Kregor ; Liszt, women and salon culture / Ulrike Müller ; Liszt as a writer / Dorothea Redepenning ; Patronage : the court / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Liszt and the networks of revolution / Bruno Moysan and Malou Heine ; Liszt's national identity : what else is new? / Shay Loya ; Liszt and religion / Eftychia Papanikolaou -- Part III. Performance and composition. Pianos and piano builders / Andrew haringer ; Liszt on the road : The rise of the modern virtuoso pianist / Christopher H. Gibbs ; Virtuosity / Jonathan Kregor ; Improvisation / Adrienne Kaczmarczyk ; Transcription / Jonathan Kregor ; Liszt and conductor / Donna M. Di Grazia ; Publishers / Adrienne Kaczmarczyk ; Genre / Joanne Cormac -- Part IV. Reception and legacy. Pupils : Liszt as teacher / Jonathan Kregor ; Critics / James Deaville ; Lateness in context / Shay Loya ; Liszt and the twentieth and twenty-first centuresi / Dorothea Redepenning ; Life-writing / Joanne Cormac ; Iconography / Alan Davison ; Liszt in film / Joanne Cormac
Summary This book explores the social, political, philosophical and professional currents that influenced Liszt's career. It reveals the rich contextual tapestry against which Liszt composed some of the most iconic, popular, and also contentious music of his time, and explains his importance to Romanticism and nineteenth-century European culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 fast
Subject Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Cormac, Joanne, editor
LC no. 2021024856
ISBN 9781108378253
1108378250