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Book Franz Liszt s  Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale Ad Nos  Ad Salutarem Undam

Download or read book Franz Liszt s Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale Ad Nos Ad Salutarem Undam written by Minjung Nam and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study will provide a performance guide to Liszts large-scale organ work, Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos, ad salutarem undam (1850). This piece is considered by many to be a work that initiates a new genre, creates a new form, and leads in a new direction for the organ, as it ventures out of the church and into the concert hall1. This nineteenth-century work exists within a context which saw a general secularization of organ music, changes in the instrument that could provide a more orchestral sound, and the emergence of a genre, the organ symphony, to exploit these developments. This guide will discuss these contexts and describe some of the unique characteristics of this work related to symphonic writing, such as instrumental recitative, form, influence from opera, use of the main theme, virtuosic elements, and pianistic devices. A major portion of the document will consist of suggestions for performance (registration, rubato, phrasing, articulation, breathing, dynamics, tempo), based on a detailed comparison of recordings of the work by four distinguished European organists.

Book Technical Exercises  Complete

Download or read book Technical Exercises Complete written by Franz Liszt and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is comprised of 86 different technical exercises composed by Liszt during 1868 to 1880. Liszt intended these highly challenging exercises to build greater performance skills in virtuoso pianists. The complete series consists of twelve volumes, each one dealing with a different pianistic problem. This edition has been compiled from the original set to present the exercises in a reasonable length without harming the essence and effectiveness of the original work.

Book Franz Liszt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Saffle
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-02-01
  • ISBN : 113583959X
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Franz Liszt written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Liszt: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer. The second edition includes research published since the publication of the first edition and provide electronic resources. Franz Liszt was born on 22 October 1811 at Raiding, today located in Austria’s Burgenland. He received his first piano lessons from his father, Adam Liszt, an employee of the celebrated Eszterházy family. Young Franz was quickly acclaimed a prodigy, and in 1820 a group of Hungarian magnates offered to underwrite his musical education. Shortly thereafter the Liszts moved to Vienna, where Franz studied piano and composition with Carl Czerny and Anton Salieri. Performances there earned Liszt local fame; even Beethoven expressed interest in him.

Book A Book of Liszts

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Spurling
  • Publisher : Seagull World Literature
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781906497941
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Book of Liszts written by John Spurling and published by Seagull World Literature. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist--whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople--made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszt's own innovative compositions and sparkling piano transcriptions of other composers' work, John Spurling here takes up the ambitious task of writing a fictionalized biography of Liszt's life. Liszt himself once said, "My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact," and Spurling's fifteen self-contained chapters--themselves virtuoso performances in a variety of styles from a variety of viewpoints--capture precisely this notion of innovation and creativity. Spurling tells of Liszt's mesmeric effect on audiences, his notorious love affairs with remarkable women, and his fraught friendship with Richard Wagner, who deeply offended Liszt by seducing and eventually marrying his daughter Cosima. Inspired by Spurling's own fascination with Liszt's music, A Book of Liszts is a highly original, imaginative, and multifaceted portrait of a humorous, romantic, and passionate genius whose work and life is still not as well known as it deserves to be.

Book Analyses of Nineteenth  and Twentieth Century Music  1940 2000

Download or read book Analyses of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Music 1940 2000 written by D. J. Hoek and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer  The last years  1857 1864

Download or read book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer The last years 1857 1864 written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism. It contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography.

Book Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress

Download or read book Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress written by Franz Liszt and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet he did and, thankfully, considerable insight may be gained from this as to his relationships, compositional methods - especially with regard to publication of his works - philosophical thoughts, attitudes to literature, to other composers, other artists in different spheres, even, though more rarely, his approach to politics and, equally important, his religious leanings.".

Book Meyerbeer s Opera Le Proph  te

Download or read book Meyerbeer s Opera Le Proph te written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Liszt Companion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Arnold
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2002-06-30
  • ISBN : 0313092141
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book The Liszt Companion written by Ben Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Liszt is most well-known for his compositions for piano and orchestra, but his influence is also strong in chamber music, choral music, and orchestral transcriptions. This new collection of essays presents a scholarly overview of all of the composer's work, providing the most comprehensive and current treatment of both his oeuvre and the immense amount of secondary literature written about it. Highly regarded critics and scholars write for both a general and academic audience, covering all of Liszt's major compositions as well as the neglected gems found among his choral and chamber works. Following an outline of the subject's life, The Liszt Companion goes on to detail Liszt's critical reception in the German press, his writings and letters, his piano and orchestral works, his neglected secular choral works, and his major organ compositions. Also explored here are his little-known chamber pieces and his songs. An exhaustive bibliography and index of works conclude the volume. This work will both elucidate aspects of Liszt's most famous work and revive interest in those pieces that deserve and require greater attention.

Book Liszt and His World

Download or read book Liszt and His World written by Michael Saffle and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of proceedings from the International Liszt Conference.

Book Trois Etudes de Concert

    Book Details:
  • Author : Franz Liszt
  • Publisher : Alfred Music
  • Release : 1996-02-01
  • ISBN : 1457475197
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Trois Etudes de Concert written by Franz Liszt and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged Piano Solo by Franz Liszt from the Kalmus Edition series. These Etudes are from the Romantic era. (Lamento, Leggierezza, Sospiro)

Book Liszt s Kiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susanne Dunlap
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-04-10
  • ISBN : 1416539646
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Liszt s Kiss written by Susanne Dunlap and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic story of a young female pianist in cholera-ravaged Paris of 1832, whose own tragedy leaves her susceptible to the passions and scandals of the composer Franz Liszt At the height of the Romantic era in Paris, there was no bigger celebrity than the composer and pianist Franz Liszt. A fiery and gorgeous Hungarian, he made women swoon at soirees and left a trail of broken hearts behind him. Anne, a countess and talented young pianist whose mother has just died of cholera, hears Franz Liszt in concert and is swept up in his allure. The enigmatic Marie d'Agoult, a friend of Anne's late mother, takes her under her wing and introduces her to the artistic world -- despite the objections of Anne's sullen and sorrowful father. Anne soon finds herself in the midst of dangerous intrigues, discovering a family secret so shocking that her father will go to any lengths to protect it. With the ominous presence of Paris's most deadly epidemic looming over every turbulent event, Liszt's Kiss is a rich evocation of a remarkable period as seen through the eyes of a sensitive young artist.

Book The Music of Liszt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Humphrey Searle
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-12-30
  • ISBN : 0486786404
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Music of Liszt written by Humphrey Searle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most authoritative English-language study of Liszt's oeuvre, this survey by a noted musicologist examines the works in chronological order. Subjects include romantic pieces, symphonic poems, songs, symphonies, and other compositions.

Book Liszt Masterpieces for Solo Piano

Download or read book Liszt Masterpieces for Solo Piano written by Franz Liszt and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterworks of the 19th-century composer include Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Consolation No. 3 in D-flat major, Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major, La Campanella (Paganini Etude No. 3), and 9 others.

Book Liszt and the Symphonic Poem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanne Cormac
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-26
  • ISBN : 1316857859
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Liszt and the Symphonic Poem written by Joanne Cormac and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the symphonic poems are usually seen as alternatives to the symphony post-Beethoven. Analysts stress their symphonic logic, thereby neglecting their 'extramusical' subject matter. This book takes a different approach: it returns these influential pieces to their original performance context in the theatre, arguing that the symphonic poem is as much a dramatic as a symphonic genre. This is evidenced in new analyses of the music that examines the theatricality of these pieces and their depiction of voices, mise-en-scène, gesture and action. Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner.

Book Sonata No 2 in B Minor by Franz Liszt for Solo Piano  1853  S 178 Lw A179

Download or read book Sonata No 2 in B Minor by Franz Liszt for Solo Piano 1853 S 178 Lw A179 written by Franz Liszt and published by Rogers Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.