Author: Raphaël Ledos de BeaufortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Abbé Liszt
Author: Raphaël Ledos de BeaufortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Franz Liszt
Author: Oliver HilmesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300219466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt’s Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon. Whereas previous biographies have focused primarily on the composer’s musical contributions, Hilmes showcases Liszt the man in all his many shades and personal reinventions: child prodigy, Romantic eccentric, fervent Catholic, actor, lothario, celebrity, businessman, genius, and extravagant show-off. The author immerses the reader in the intrigues of the nineteenth-century European glitterati (including Liszt’s powerful patrons, the monstrous Wagner clan) while exploring the true, complex face of the artist and the soul of his music. No other Liszt biography in English is as colorful, witty, and compulsively readable, or reveals as much about the true nature of this extraordinary, outrageous talent.
Franz Liszt, the Story of His Life
Author: Raphael Ledos de BeaufortPublisher:
ISBN: 9780243709014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Franz Liszt
Author: Raphaël Ledos de BeaufortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Franz Liszt and His World
Author: Christopher H. GibbsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400828619
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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.
Franz Liszt, the Story of His Life (Classic Reprint)
Author: Raphael Ledos De BeaufortPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528468695
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Excerpt from Franz Liszt, the Story of His Life Franz's first attempt to set an opera to music.-clouds. Travelling projects. - Liszt's mother returns to Austria - England. - Debut in London. In the Drawing-rooms; in the concert-hall; at Court. Return to Paris. - Tour in the French provinces. To England again. - Awakening self-conscious ness. - F eels repugnance for the artist's vocation. IX. TO Paris again. - Performance of Don Sancho. The youthful productions of Franz Liszt. Compar ison between his early works and Beethoven's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Life of Chopin
Author: Franz LisztPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Franz Liszt, the Story of His Life
Author: RaphaГl Ledos de BeaufortPublisher: Trieste Publishing
ISBN: 9780649004027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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Franz Liszt
Author: Ernst BurgerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691091334
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A documentary biography of the admired performer and composer presents new information on his life and work, testimonies of his contemporaries, and an exceptional range of illustrations
Life of Chopin
Author: Franz LisztPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613105460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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