Screen LibraryFranz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar /
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing docu...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt's Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon. Whereas previous biographies have focused primarily on the composer's musical contributions, Hilmes showcases Liszt the man in all his many shades and personal reinventions: child prodigy, Romantic eccentric, fervent Catholic, actor, lothario, celebrity, businessman, genius, and extravagant show-off. The author immerses the reader in the intrigues of the nineteenth-century European glitterati (including Liszt's powerful patrons, the monstrous Wagner clan) while exploring the true, complex face of the artist and the soul of his music. No other Liszt biography in English is as colorful, witty, and compulsively readable, or reveals as much about the true nature of this extraordinary, outrageous talent [Publisher description]. |
| Item Description: | "Originally published under the title Franz Liszt: Biographie eines Superstars by Oliver Hilmes © 2011 By Siedler Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich." |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 353 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300182934 0300182937 |
| Index Number: | ML410 |
| CLC: | K835.155.76 |
| Call Number: | K835.155.76/L774H |
| Contents: | Childhood and adolescence (1811-27) -- Rehearsing and studying (1827-35) -- Annâees de páelerinage (1835-9) -- Living like a Lord (1839-47) -- Weimar (1847-61) -- Rome (1861-8) -- La vie trifurquâee (1869-86) -- Postlude. |