Liszt

Zusatztext an indispensable companion for students, scholars, performers and music lovers alike. Informationen zum Autor Freelance broadcaster, composer, pianist, and lecturer Klappentext Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of eachcomposer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work--all in roughly 300pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series generaleditor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years. Zusammenfassung Captures the man and the musician - the legendary virtuoso tours, the creator of various types of orchestral and choral music, and of piano works and transcriptions which revolutionized the possibilities of the instrument. This book shows how Liszt, the cosmopolitan, left his mark of many different schools of composition.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Watson, Watson Derek
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2000
• EAN: 9780198164999
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816499-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Master Musicians Series; Master Musicians Series; Composers Across Cultures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, Romanticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music