Read Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886

Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886

Alan Walker

4.9/5 (24600 ratings)

Description:The last quarter-century of Liszt's life was filled with dramatic turns, contrasts and emotional storms, like the Hungarian composer's romantic music. The buoyant man of the world retreated into a monastery near Rome (1863-1865), emerging as a Roman Catholic cleric. His elder daughter, Blandine, died from a breast operation, and Liszt tried his best to break up the adulterous relationship of his younger daughter, Cosima, with composer Richard Wagner, whom she married after concealing the out-of-wedlock births of three children by Wagner from her first husband, pianist and Wagner-worshiper Hans von Bulow. Shuttling endlessly between Rome, Weimar, Budapest, Paris, Vienna, overworked, overdrinking Liszt suffered a nervous breakdown in 1877 and struggled with suicidal impulses. Polish princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, whose wedding to Liszt was canceled at the last minute in 1861 because of her family's meddling, betrayed him in 1881 by inserting an anti-Semitic chapter into Liszt's revised book on Bohemian music. In this final volume of an extraordinary biography, Walker, a professor of music in Ontario, shows how Liszt's universal despair gave rise to the pathbreaking, proto-modernist music of his later years. A rarity among composers' biographies, this full-bodied portrait combines lively writing and impeccable scholarship.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886. To get started finding Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0801484537

Description: The last quarter-century of Liszt's life was filled with dramatic turns, contrasts and emotional storms, like the Hungarian composer's romantic music. The buoyant man of the world retreated into a monastery near Rome (1863-1865), emerging as a Roman Catholic cleric. His elder daughter, Blandine, died from a breast operation, and Liszt tried his best to break up the adulterous relationship of his younger daughter, Cosima, with composer Richard Wagner, whom she married after concealing the out-of-wedlock births of three children by Wagner from her first husband, pianist and Wagner-worshiper Hans von Bulow. Shuttling endlessly between Rome, Weimar, Budapest, Paris, Vienna, overworked, overdrinking Liszt suffered a nervous breakdown in 1877 and struggled with suicidal impulses. Polish princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, whose wedding to Liszt was canceled at the last minute in 1861 because of her family's meddling, betrayed him in 1881 by inserting an anti-Semitic chapter into Liszt's revised book on Bohemian music. In this final volume of an extraordinary biography, Walker, a professor of music in Ontario, shows how Liszt's universal despair gave rise to the pathbreaking, proto-modernist music of his later years. A rarity among composers' biographies, this full-bodied portrait combines lively writing and impeccable scholarship.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886. To get started finding Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886

Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886

More Books

Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847

Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847

Franz Liszt: The Weimar years, 1848-1861

Franz Liszt: The Weimar years, 1848-1861

Franz Liszt, Artist and Man. 1811-1840

Franz Liszt, Artist and Man. 1811-1840

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

The Letters of Franz Liszt, . from Paris to Rome

The Letters of Franz Liszt, . from Paris to Rome

Letters of Franz Liszt

Letters of Franz Liszt

The Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt

The Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt

Letters of Franz Liszt: Years of travel as virtuoso. Weimar

Letters of Franz Liszt: Years of travel as virtuoso. Weimar

Reading Franz Liszt

Reading Franz Liszt