Liszt and Virtuosity (eBook)

Robert Doran (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
446 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78744-973-2 (ISBN)

Infos

CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense of awe-inspiring excitement andan icon whose star power radiated far beyond the realm of music, Liszt was, along with his early model, Paganini, among the first major performer-composers to define himself principally by virtuosity. Featuring new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars, Liszt and Virtuosity offers a reevaluation of the concept and practices of virtuosity as shaped and defined in Liszt's multifaceted oeuvre, as well as a reconsiderationof Liszt's relation to other major and lesser-known musical figures, including Czerny, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and Marie Jaell. Set in the context of larger trends within the fields of music history, musicanalysis, intellectual history, and performance studies, these capacious explorations demonstrate that Liszt's uniqueness and significance resided in his ability to transform virtuosity into a revolutionary musical force, pushingthe piano aesthetic to the limits of sound and poetic meaning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Reihe/Serie: Eastman Studies in Music
• Co-Autor: Robert Doran, Jim Samson, Olivia Sham, Nicolas Dufetel, Jonathan Dunsby, Kenneth Hamilton, David Keep, Jonathan Kregor, Ralph P Locke, Shay Loya, Dolores Pesce
• Zusatzinfo: 100 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: Essays • Experimental • Genres • Intellectual history • leading scholars • Liszt • musical force • Music analysis • Music History • performance studies • piano aesthetic • Practices • technical feats • virtuosity
• ISBN-10: 1-78744-973-4 / 1787449734
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-973-2 / 9781787449732