Liszt / Derek Watson.
By: Watson, Derek [author. ]
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BookSeries: Master musicians series: Publisher: London : J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1990]Copyright date: ©1989Description: xii, 404 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0460125990 (paperback) .Subject(s): Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 | Composers -- Hungary -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 LIS | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 LIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00235983 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is intended for musicians, general music lovers, students of music from A-level onwards, university music departments.
Bibliography: (pages 385-389) and index.
The wonderchild (1811-27) -- Years of pilgrimage (1828-39) -- Lisztomania (1839-47) -- Weimar (1848-61) -- L'Abbe Liszt (1861-8) -- Une vie trifurquee (1869-86) -- The man Liszt -- The piano: technique and teaching -- Musical language: technique and transformation -- Transcriptions -- Original piano music -- Concertos -- Orchestral music -- Organ and chamber music -- Choral works -- Songs.
Alan Cutts Collection.
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
Watson's volume is a welcome addition to the growing, and increasingly laudatory, library of works on Liszt. Revisionism by now has carried the composer's reputation to heights it has not enjoyed since his heyday as a virtuoso. This book will aid that development. Primarily a biography, it provides an up-to-date study of one of the most spectacular musical lives from an era when exaggeration was the norm. Although not making an exhaustive analysis of the music, Watson discusses all the composer's vast output, and he includes a catalog of works together with a "calendar" showing Liszt's career in historical context. There is a roster of "Personalia," a select bibliography, and an index. The style is eminently readable, with only a few typographical errors. The book is handsomely and clearly printed and bound, with numerous excellent musical illustrations. Although this book will not render obsolete earlier studies of the composer, such as Humphrey Searle's The Music of Liszt (London, 1954), or rival Alan Walker's ongoing Franz Liszt (v.1, CH, Sep '83; v.2, see above), it does include data from recent research and is especially solid on obscure points related to the composer's life and professional career. Everything one might wish to know about Liszt the man and musician is contained here. -F. Goossen, University of AlabamaAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Derek Watson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1948. He studied music at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1971. As an actor, he performed under the name Derwent Watson at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. After he retired from the theater in 1994, Watson opened Linton Books.He also wrote several biographies of classical music composers. He wrote Richard Wagner: A Biography and edited the Dictionary of Music Quotations. He also contributed several volumes to the Master Musicians series of books including Bruckner and Liszt. He died September 17, 2018 at the age of 69.
(Bowker Author Biography)