Liszt and Virtuosity
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essays
experimental
genres
intellectual history
leading scholars
Liszt
music analysis
music history
musical force
performance studies
piano aesthetic
practices
technical feats
virtuosity
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- ISBN 9781648251146
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2025
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023
A 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.
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.
