Liszt's Final Decade - Couverture rigide

Pesce, Dolores

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 158046484X ISBN 13 : 9781580464840

Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Toward the end of his life Franz Liszt maintained extensive correspondence with two women who were at the time his closest confidantes, Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein and Olga von Meyendorff. Liszt wrote to them regularly, expressing his intimate feelings about personal and career events and his conflicted self-image as a celebrated performer but underappreciated composer. Absent a diary, the letters offer the most direct avenue into Liszt's psyche in his final years. Liszt's Final Decade explores through these letters the mind and music of one of the nineteenth century's most popular musicians, providing insight into Liszt's melancholia in his last years and his struggle to gain recognition for his music yet avoid criticism. The exchange indicates that Liszt ultimately resolved his inner conflict through a personally constructed Christian moral philosophy that embraced positive resignation to suffering, compassionate love, and trust in a just reward to come. The book also examines how Liszt's late sacred compositions affirm the yielding of suffering to joy and hope. Significantly, Liszt viewed these works, commonly overlooked today, as a major part of his compositional legacy. This volume thus challenges the idea of a single "late" Lisztian style and the notion that despair overwhelmed the composer in his final years.

Revue de presse :

The topic of Liszt's late years has long been subject to uninformed conjecture, hagiographic hyperbole, and ideological posturing. With methodological acumen and critical flair, Dolores Pesce successfully unpacks the dense portrait of the composer and his music in Liszt's Final Decade, bringing both the public and private Liszt to life. Particularly welcome are the close readings of Liszt's late correspondence, the detailed coverage of his late religious music, and the reconstruction of his self-image. This is an important book. --Jonathan Kregor, author of Liszt as Transcriber and editor of the Journal of the American Liszt Society

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Rochester Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 158046484X
• ISBN 13: 9781580464840
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384