The Virtuoso Liszt

Autorentext
Dana Gooley is Assistant Professor of Music at the Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. He has presented numerous papers on virtuosity and on issues of gender and music, and has published in the journals 19th Century Music and the Journal of the American Liszt Society. Dana Gooley is also an accomplished pianist who plays in jazz clubs and concerts halls around the world.

Klappentext
How does Franz Liszt's career compare when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? This book examines how Liszt's contemporaries perceived and interpreted his significance. Dana Gooley explains why the cultural context of his concert career contributed to his unprecedented popularity and focuses on controversies provoked by Liszt in the press. Gooley includes many new insights about his highly original performing style.

Zusammenfassung
Dana Gooley examines the concert career of the great nineteenth-century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt. It is the first book to examine in depth how Liszt's contemporaries perceived him and interpreted his significance. The author offers many new insights about Liszt's highly original performing style.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; Note on periodical citations; Introduction: A virtuoso in context; 1. Liszt, Thalberg, and the Parisian publics; 2. Warhorses: virtuosity, violence, and the cult of Napoleon; 3. The cosmopolitan as nationalist; 4. Liszt and the German nation, 1840-43; 5. Anatomy of 'Lisztomania': the Berlin episode; Bibliography; Works cited.

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