Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor PDF

Author: Kenneth Hamilton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-28

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9780521469630

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Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This handbook opens with a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition - which include some well-known pieces that, hitherto, have been unrecognised as sonata forms - and clears away some of the persistent myths regarding programme music in Liszt's output. In the central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, Kenneth Hamilton discusses various interpretative approaches, arguing that the contradictory writings on the subject stem from the deliberate formal ambiguity of the piece itself - one reason for its perennial fascination, perhaps. The book concludes with a chapter on the performance practice and the performing history of the work, which should be of particular interest to pianists.

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor PDF

Author: Kenneth Hamilton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-28

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780521465700

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Liszt's B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This book, written by a pianist who has performed the Sonata extensively, includes a survey of Liszt's early attempts at sonata composition and clears away some of the persisent myths regarding program music in Liszt's output. The central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, discuss various interpretative approaches, while the concluding chapter treats the performance practice and performing history of the work. This is the first book to elucidate this ground-breaking piece for the general reader.

Sonata in B minor and other works for piano

Sonata in B minor and other works for piano PDF

Author: Franz Liszt

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0486261824

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One of Liszt's most performed piano masterpieces, with the 6 Consolations, 10 Harmonies poetiques et religieuses, 2 Ballades, and 2 Legendes. Breitkopf and Hartel edition."

Trois Etudes de Concert

Trois Etudes de Concert PDF

Author: Franz Liszt

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1996-02-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1457475197

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Expertly arranged Piano Solo by Franz Liszt from the Kalmus Edition series. These Etudes are from the Romantic era. (Lamento, Leggierezza, Sospiro)

Reflections on Liszt

Reflections on Liszt PDF

Author: Alan Walker

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2011-07-07

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1501717022

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In a series of lively essays that tell us much not only about the phenomenon that was Franz Liszt but also about the musical and cultural life of nineteenth-century Europe, Alan Walker muses on aspects of Liszt's life and work that he was unable to explore in his acclaimed three-volume biography of the great composer and pianist. Topics include Liszt's contributions to the Lied, the lifelong impact of his encounter with Beethoven, his influence on students who became famous in their own right, his accomplishments in transcribing and editing the works of other composers, and his innovative piano technique. One chapter is devoted to the Sonata in B Minor, perhaps Liszt's single most celebrated composition. Walker draws heavily on Liszt's astonishingly large personal correspondence with other composers, critics, pianists, and prominent public figures. All the essays reveal Walker's broad and deep knowledge of Liszt and Romantic music generally and, in some cases, his impatience with contemporary performance practice.

Revolution and Religion in the Music of Liszt

Revolution and Religion in the Music of Liszt PDF

Author: Paul Merrick

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1987-02-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780521326278

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This study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Liszt and his music aims to restore a balanced view of both man and artist. In contrast to the familiar portrayal of the virtuoso pianist, Liszt is considered here as a serious man of ideas: in tracing the composer's relationships and attitudes to the twin themes of revolution and religion, Paul Merrick finds much of Liszt's music, both secular and sacred, to be inspired by the same deeply felt religious conviction that also governed his private life from an early age. The first part of the book is primarily biographical and considers Liszt's reactions to the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, his relationship with the Abbe Lamennais, the Comtesse d' Agoult, Princess Wittgenstein and Wagner, and contains the first convincing explanation for the sudden cancellation of Liszt's marriage to Princess Wittgenstein. The remaining sections consider the church music and the programmatic music that is related to this.

Virtuosity and the Musical Work

Virtuosity and the Musical Work PDF

Author: Jim Samson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-23

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 113943621X

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This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826), its reworking as Douzes grandes études (1837), and their reworking as Douzes études d'exécution transcendante (1851). At the same time it is a book about nineteenth-century instrumental music in general, in that the three works invite the exploration of features characteristic of the early Romantic era in music. These include: a composer-performer culture, the concept of virtuosity, the significance of recomposition, music and the poetic, and the consolidation of a musical work-concept. A central concern is to illuminate the relationship between the work-concept and a performance- and genre-orientated musical culture. At the same time the book reflects on how we might make judgements of the 'Transcendentals', of the Symphonic Poem Mazeppa (based on the fourth etude), and of Liszt's music in general.

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