The Cambridge Companion To Liszt

Edited by Kenneth Hamilton

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.

Bibliographic Details

3 b/w illus. 20 music examples

Contents

• 1. The romantic artist Katharine Ellis
• 2. Inventing Liszts life: early biography and autobiography Alexander Rehding
• 3. Liszt in the twentieth century James Deaville
• 4. Liszts early and Weimar piano works Kenneth Hamilton
• 5. Liszts late piano works: a survey James M. Baker
• 6. Liszts late piano works: larger forms James M. Baker
• 7. Liszts piano concerti: a lost tradition Anna Celenza
• 8. Performing Liszts piano music Kenneth Hamilton
• 9. Liszts Lieder Monika Hennemann
• 10. Liszts symphonic poems and symphonies Reeves Shulstad
• 11. Liszts sacred choral music Dolores Pesce.