A BOOK OF LISZTS –: VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF FRANZ LISZT

Opis produktu

The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (18111886) 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 nineteenthcentury equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszts 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 Liszts life. Liszt himself once said My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact and Spurlings fifteen selfcontained 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 Liszts 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 Spurlings own fascination with Liszts 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.

Data Publikacji: 2011-05-03
Wymiary: 243 mm 165 mm 580 gr 21.41 mm