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Liszt and Virtuosity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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 and an 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 reconsideration of Liszt's relation to other major and lesser-known musical figures, including Czerny, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and Marie Jaëll. Set in the context of larger trends within the fields of music history, music analysis, 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, pushing the piano aesthetic to the limits of sound and poetic meaning.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-27
Mått152 x 229 x 36 mm
Vikt697 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEastman Studies in Music
Antal sidor446
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781580469395

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ROBERT DORAN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Music Theory Departmentat the Eastman School of Music. RALPH LOCKE is Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, NY. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Eastman Studies in Music. ROBERT DORAN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and an Affiliate Faculty member in the Music Theory Departmentat the Eastman School of Music.

Introduction: Virtuosity and Liszt - Robert DoranPart One: Liszt, Virtuosity, and PerformanceAprès une lecture de Czerny?: Liszt's Creative Virtuosity - Kenneth HamiltonTransforming Virtuosity: Liszt and Nineteenth-Century Pianos - Olivia ShamSpirit and Mechanism: Liszt's Early Piano Technique and Teaching - Nicolas DufetelPaths through the Lisztian Ossia - Jonathan KregorBrahms "versus" Liszt: The Internalization of Virtuosity - David KeepPart Two: Lisztian Virtuosity: Theoretical ApproachesThe Practice of Pianism: Virtuosity and Oral History - Jim SamsonLiszt's Symbiosis: The Question of Virtuosity and the Concerto Arrangement of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy - Jonathan DunsbyFrom the Brilliant Style to the Bravura Style: Reconceptualizing Lisztian Virtuosity - Robert DoranPart Three: Virtuosity and Anti-Virtuosity in "Late Liszt"Harmony, Gesture, and Virtuosity in Liszt's Revisions: Shaping the Affective Journeys of the Cypress Pieces from Années de pèlerinage III - Dolores PesceAnti-Virtuosity and Musical Experimentalism: Liszt, Marie Jaëll, Debussy, and Others - Ralph P. LockeVirtuosity in Liszt's Late Piano Works - Shay Loya

This collection of essays is a sophisticated meditation on virtuosity itself. Liszt and Virtuosity succeeds in its ambitious goal of rehabilitation and reconceptualisation, revealing virtuosity not as empty display but as a profound creative force that shaped musical Modernism itself. It thus transforms our understanding of Liszt from mere showman to visionary composer - one whose integration of technical mastery with expressive depth created new possibilities for musical meaning.