Cambridge Companion To Liszt, The

This Companion provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core of Liszt’s piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire, his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Contents: 1. The romantic artist - Katharine Ellis; 2. Inventing Liszt’s life: early biography and autobiography - Alexander Rehding; 3. Liszt in the twentieth century - James Deaville; 4. Liszt's early and Weimar piano works - Kenneth Hamilton; 5. Liszt's late piano works: a survey - James M. Baker; 6. Liszt's late piano works: larger forms - James M. Baker; 7. Liszt's piano concerti: a lost tradition - Anna Celenza; 8. Performing Liszt’s piano music - Kenneth Hamilton; 9. Liszt's Lieder - Monika Hennemann; 10. Liszt's symphonic poems and symphonies - Reeves Shulstad; 11. Liszt's sacred choral music - Dolores Pesce.