The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

by Edited by Kenneth Hamilton

• ISBN13: 9780521644624
• ISBN10: 0521644623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Liszt then and now Kenneth Hamilton

1. Liszt biography - autobiography Alexander Rehding

2. The romantic artist Katharine Ellis

3. The piano concertos - a forgotten tradition Anna H. Harwell Celenza

4. The symphonies and symphonic poems Reeves Shulstad

5. The early to middle period piano music Kenneth Hamilton

6. The late piano music James Baker

7. The songs Monika Hennemann

8. The choral music Kenneth Hamilton and Monika Hennemann

9. Liszt in performance Kenneth Hamilton

10. Liszt in the twentieth century James Deaville.