Liszt as Transcriber (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107411388)

Franz Liszt's colleagues considered him to be one of the most accomplished and innovative practitioners in the field of musical reproduction, a reputation for which he is still admired today. Yet, while his transcriptions are widely performed, few studies have investigated the role that transcriptions played in Liszt's artistry, to say nothing of the impact they had on the music-making experience of his day. Using a host of interdisciplinary methods and primary source materials, this book provides a comprehensive survey of Liszt's lifelong involvement with the transcription, in which he assumed the roles of composer, collaborator, propagandist, commemorator, philosopher, and artist while simultaneously disseminating - often critically - the music of Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, Wagner, and other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. By recognizing transcription as an extraordinarily flexible tool for Liszt and his contemporaries, Liszt as Transcriber provides numerous musical, cultural, and historical contexts for this fundamentally important practice of the period.

Author: Jonathan Kregor
ISBN-10: 1107411386
ISBN-13: 9781107411388
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2012
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.66d