Research Catalog

Title

Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar / Oliver Hilmes ; translated by Stewart Spencer.

Author

Hilmes, Oliver

Publication

• New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

Spencer, Stewart

Description

xiii, 353 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm

Summary

"Whereas previous biographies have focused primarily on the composer's musical contributions, Hilmes showcases Liszt the man in all his many shades and personal reinventions: child prodigy, Romantic eccentric, fervent Catholic, actor, lothario, celebrity, businessman, genius and extravagant show-off. The author immerses the reader in the intrigues of the nineteenth-century European glitterati (including Liszt's powerful patrons, the monstrous Wagner clan) while exploring the complex face of the artist and the soul of his music."

Uniform Title

Franz Liszt. English

Alternative Title

• Franz Liszt.
• Musician, celebrity, superstar

Subject

• Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
• Liszt, Franz 1811-1886
• Composers > Biography
• Composers

Genre/Form

• Biografie.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• "Originally published under the title Liszt: Biographie eines Superstars by Oliver Hilmes © 2011 By Siedler Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Munich."
• Translated from the German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Childhood and adolescence (1811-27) -- Rehearsing and studying (1827-35) -- Années de pèlerinage (1835-9) -- Living like a Lord (1839-47) -- Weimar (1847-61) -- Rome (1861-8) -- La vie trifurquée (1869-86) -- Postlude.

ISBN

• 9780300182934
• 0300182937

LCCN

^^2015034552

OCLC

• 922034630
• SCSB-10370436

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library