A Present View over Franz Liszt’s Piano Music
A Present View over Franz Liszt’s Piano Music

Summary/Abstract: After a thought of gratitude towards Leslie Howard, who offers us the Liszt’s complete piano work, recorded in 97 CDs, summarizing 120 hours of music, the author tries to give a global perspective of this enormous quantity of music. The main topics are: the Études; music impregnated with moments, scenes, elements from nature; music inspired by the poetry; the religious prevailing side of Liszt’s personality; the orchestral piano; the enthusiastic admirer of the opera; the powerful national feeling; the vocation for friendship and the tenderness of the family man. Finally, the author speaks about Liszt’s late piano music and presents his concept of pianistic technique. The conclusion is that the whole Lisztian piano music gives us an authentic image of his lif

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