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Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt

By Jim Samson

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
9780511042539, 9780521814942, 0521814944
Open Library ID
OL22519877M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6924316 bytes)
Pages
250\250
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826); its reworking as Douzes grandes etudes (1837); and their reworking as Douzes etudes d'execution transcendante (1851). It is also a book about nineteenth-century instrumental music in general because the three works invite the exploration of features characteristic of the early Romantic era in music. These include a composer-performer culture; the concept of virtuosity; the significance of recomposition; music and the poetic; and the consolidation of a musical work-concept.

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