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Franz Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848 1861 Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Walker, Alan (Author)
ISBN: 0801497213     ISBN-13: 9780801497216
Publisher: Cornell University Press
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 1993
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Annotation: This book is an in depth look at Liszt and anything connected with Liszt during the years from 1848 to 1861.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Individual Composer & Musician
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Performing Arts
Dewey: B
LCCN: 87024459
Physical Information: 1.71" H x 6.1" W x 9.25" (2.15 lbs) 656 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.

"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books

"A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal

"What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning twenty-five years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival."--Elliot Ravetz, Time

"The prose is so lively that the reader is often swept along by the narrative. . . . This three-part work . . . is now the definitive work on Liszt in English and belongs in all music collections."--Library Journal


Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Alan: - Alan Walker is Professor Emeritus of Music at McMaster University, Canada, and author of numerous books, including The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen; Franz Liszt The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (volume 1); The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 (volume 2); and The Final Years, 1861-1886 (volume 3), all from Cornell, and Hans Von Bülow A Life and Times. He has been awarded the Music Teachers National Association 2010 Achievement Award, the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize, and the medal Pro Cultura Hungarica, presented by the President of Hungary.