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Fantastic Source about a Fantastic Man.,
This review is from: Franz Liszt, Vol. 2: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 (Paperback)
I have been a great fan of Franz Liszt for quite some time, and Alan Walker brought the composer to life in his trilogy of books about the famed musician.This volume goes into great detail about Liszt's life after he decided to end his life as a virtuoso, and become a composer. His love for Princess Carolyne became apparent in his music, and in his interactions with others. While it is not as descriptive as I would have liked regarding Liszt's symphonic poems, my favorites among his many works, i still felt that this volume is well worth every penny I spent on it. Definitely a worthy buy for anyone interested in music and what makes up a composer.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Attention all Lisztians,
By A Customer
This review is from: Franz Liszt, Vol. 2: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 (Paperback)
If you are a Lisztomaniac, this is for you. It is a book that is very difficult to put down. Liszt's life reads better than a novel, and Walker's narrative flows superbly. He has investigated every biographical avenue and brings the Weimar of the 1800's to life. On the negative side: There are copious footnotes, which often stray off the subject, whilst others belong to the main text from which they divert. As the book is meant to be a work of scholarship, the amount of opinion and speculation which peppers the book is also rather annoying. One has to be very cautious in separating Walker's own views from the first-class academic research that he has done. Nonetheless as this book covers the most prolific period of the composer's life, you can do no better than read Walker's account to dicover just who Liszt was, his importance to musical history and the enigma of the man himself.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Attention all Lisztians,
By A Customer
This review is from: Franz Liszt, Vol. 2: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861 (Paperback)
If you are a Lisztomaniac, this is for you. It is a book that is very difficult to put down. Liszt's life reads better than a novel, and Walker's narrative flows superbly. He has investigated every biographical avenue and brings the Weimar of the 1800's to life. On the negative side: There are copious footnotes, which often stray off the subject, whilst others belong to the main text from which they divert. As the book is meant to be a work of scholarship, the amount of opinion and speculation which peppers the book is also rather annoying. One has to be very cautious in separating Walker's own views from the first-class academic research that he has done. Nonetheless as this book covers the most prolific period of the composer's life, you can do no better than read Walker's account to dicover just who Liszt was, his importance to musical history and the enigma of the man himself.
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The reader who has followed the story of Liszt's life this far will recall that the narrative of Volume One was broken off at the point where he had achieved his greatest celebrity as a pianist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carl Alexander, Princess Marie, Princess Carolyne, Madame Patersi, Maria Pawlowna, Volume One, Dante Symphony, Court Theatre, Anna Liszt, Hans von Billow, Old Style, Weimar Court, Carl Friedrich, Franz Liszt, Richard Pohl, Erbprinz Hotel, Carl August, Eduard Liszt, Frau von Billow, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, New German School, Neue Zeitschrift, War of the Romantics, Agnes Street-Klindworth, Prince Nicholas New!
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