The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

Presents an authoritative overview and up-to-date Liszt scholarship in an accessible fashion.

Kenneth Hamilton (Edited by)

9780521644624, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 September 2005

300 pages, 3 b/w illus. 20 music examples
24.4 x 17 x 1.6 cm, 0.48 kg

'… a rewarding study of a fascinating romantic artist.' Reference Reviews

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.

Subject Areas: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups [AVH], Romantic music [c 1830 to c 1900 AVGC5]