4 edition of Franz Liszt: the man and his music found in the catalog.
Franz Liszt: the man and his music
Walker, Alan
Published
1970
by Barrie & Jenkins in London
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Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 387-389.
| Statement | [by] Sacheverell Sitwell [and others] Edited by Alan Walker. |
| Contributions | Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897- |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | ML410.L7 W28 1970b |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xv, 471 p., 25 plates. |
| Number of Pages | 471 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5002009M |
| ISBN 10 | 0214666883 |
| LC Control Number | 76509357 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 100660 |
"Franz Liszt: The Man and His Music by Alan Walker A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in . No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (). 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 .
His role in the War of the Romantics, and his progressive views in Art are mentioned too briefly and spread the erroneous impression that Franz Liszt was but a shallow, piano-banging virtuoso. The fact that his crowning masterpiece, the Piano Sonata in B minor is mentioned so briefly, shows again how poo This book is a dumbed-down version of /5(11). 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.
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar by Oliver Hilmes review – a man who transformed music This is a biography for those with an interest in the composer’s life. Franz Liszt Life Life of Franz Liszt (detailed biography) Family Adam Liszt (father) Anna Liszt (mother) Marie d'Agoult (1st wife, mother of his children) Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (2nd wife) Cosima Wagner (daughter) Works Musical works of Franz Liszt Late works of Franz Liszt Compositions List of compositions by Franz Liszt (Main Page) S
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Franz Liszt: The man and his music, edited by Alan Walker, Barrie & Jenkins,ff. This is the most detailed book about the life and work of Franz Liszt that I have by: Considering all that, Franz Liszt: The Man and His Music still makes surprisingly rewarding read.
The major reason for my acquiring this book was the fact that it is edited by Alan Walker. As it turned out, the man is just as brilliant an editor as he is an author.5/5(3).
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Enjoyable throughout and well-researched, a dream book for piano enthusiasts, has such anecdotes as Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin hanging out at a cafe/5. Alan Walker Franz Liszt: The Final Years, Cornell University Press, ; ISBN ; pages "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D.
Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Considering all that, Franz Liszt: The Man and His Music still makes a surprisingly rewarding read. The major reason for my acquiring this book was the fact that it is edited by Alan Walker.
As it turned out, the man is just as brilliant an editor as he is an author. Pressburg. Once the most important of cities in Hungary, its name lives on in a peace treaty signed inwhich brought to an end hostilities. Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt.
Franz Liszt (German: ; Hungarian: Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc [ˈlist ˈfɛrɛnt͡s]; 22 October – 31 July ) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic is widely regarded to be one of the greatest pianists of all time.
He was also a writer, philanthropist, Hungarian nationalist, and Franciscan. Liszt: A character study / Sacheverell Sitwell --Liszt the pianist and teacher / Arthur Hedley --Liszt's musical background / Alan Walker --Solo piano music () / Louis Kentner --Solo piano music () / John Ogdon --Transcriptions for piano / David Wilde --The interpretation of Liszt's piano music / Louis Kentner --The songs.
Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer. Among his many notable compositions are his 12 symphonic poems, two piano concerti, several sacred choral works, and a variety of solo piano pieces. A controversial figure in his time, he later came to be seen as a revolutionary who anticipated later developments.
The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject/5(3).
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."―D.
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National Emergency Library. Top Franz Liszt; the man and his music by Walker, Alan, Publication date Topics Liszt, Franz, Publisher New York, Taplinger Pub. CoPages: ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: xiv, pages: illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm: Contents: Liszt: a character study / Sacheverell Sitwell --Liszt: the pianist and teacher / Arthur Hedley --Liszt's musical background / Alan Walker --Solo piano music () / Louis Kentner --Solo piano music () / John Ogdon --Transcriptions for.
The whole book is an exquisite panorama of Liszt's character, detailed through his letters, his travels, his music, and his legacy as researched by the author. What Walker has done is set the standard for the way Liszt should be viewed in the history books.
For so long, musicologists were almost feeding us false information/5(30). The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject.5/5(1).
Many scholars, concert pianists, and classical music fans deem Franz Liszt the preeminent pianist of the nineteenth century. In Franz Liszt, His Circle, and His Elusive Oratorio, Xavier Puslowski engages in a detailed study of the links between Liszt, his contemporaries, and his milieu.Alan Walker is Professor Emeritus of Music at McMaster University, Canada, and author of numerous books, including The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen; Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, – (volume 1); The Weimar Years, – (volume 2); and The Final Years, – (volume 3), all from Cornell, and Hans Von Bülow: A Life.
Alan Walker’s definitive three-volume biography of Liszt, Franz Liszt, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award, among others.
His writing has appeared in journals such as The Musical Quarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and Times Educational Supplement/5(3).
