Franz Liszt: The final years, 1861-1886The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning twenty-five years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival."--Elliot Ravetz, Time "The prose is so lively that the reader is often swept along by the narrative. . . . This three-part work . . . is now the definitive work on Liszt in English and belongs in all music collections."--Library Journal |
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King Lear of Music | 3 |
A Thwarted Marriage 1861 | 21 |
The Eternal City | 35 |
The Death of Blandine 1862 | 47 |
The Madonna del Rosario 18631865 | 54 |
List Enters the Lower Orders 1865 | 85 |
Paris and the Gran Mass 1866 | 95 |
The Triangle Forms 18631867 | 106 |
Liszt and Bayreuth | 341 |
Wanderer Eternal 18761881 | 357 |
Unstern | 403 |
Nuages gris | 416 |
The Music of Liszts Old Age | 437 |
Harmonies du soir 18811885 | 457 |
Liszts Last Visit to England April 1886 | 477 |
Approaching the End | 498 |
The Triangle Breaks 18681870 | 130 |
Of Kings and Castles 1867 | 147 |
Of Cossacks and Countesses | 171 |
The Return of a Legend | 193 |
The FrancoPrussian War of 1870 | 212 |
List and His Pupils | 228 |
Excelsior 18731875 | 255 |
The Royal Academy of Music 1875 | 288 |
The Last Years of Marie dAgoult | 301 |
External Weaknesses Interior Causes | 319 |
The Death of Liszt | 508 |
Aftermath | 523 |
Princess Carolynes Death Notice from the Register of Santa Maria del Popolo Rome | 541 |
Liszt Enters the Minor Orders of the Priesthood Entries from the Liber Ordinationum for 18631872 Vicariato di Roma | 545 |
Liszts Titles and Honours | 549 |
Catalogue of Princess Carolynes Writings | 553 |
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