Liszt Franz Libri

Parigi, 1840. Quando si incontrano per la prima volta nelle stanze dell’editore Maurice Schlesinger, Liszt è il pianista più acclamato d’Europa, conteso da tutti i salotti e dalle corti, mentre Wagner è un giovane compositore ancora sconosciuto, costretto a guadagnarsi da vivere con le trascrizioni per pianoforte. È il primo passo di una delle più feconde, celebri e complesse amicizie della storia della musica.Negli otto anni successivi, Wagner compone Il Vascello fantasma, Tannhäuser e Lohengrin, e già all’inizio degli anni cinquanta Liszt, compresane la portata rivoluzionaria, si butta anima e corpo in quella che lui stesso chiama «propaganda wagneriana»: il culmine è raggiunto a Weimar nel febbraio-marzo 1853 con un ciclo – il primo di questo genere – in cui Liszt dirige di persona le tre opere.Accanto a una messe di articoli e interventi che celebrano il genio assoluto di Wagner, Liszt concepisce anche un libro, dove è manifesta la volontà di non separare il compositore dal librettista – punto essenziale del nuovo sistema drammatico – e di mettere in primo piano i mezzi utilizzati da Wagner per fondere musica e dramma. Sono, queste di Liszt, pagine appassionate e profonde che rivelano una ricerca personale e musicale inesausta, sostenuta da innumerevoli riferimenti alla filosofia, alla Bibbia, alle mitologie greco-latina e germanoscandinava, alla letteratura e alle arti figurative, e da un lessico ricco e raro. Il libro, per avverse vicende editoriali, non vide mai la luce, ma oggi, grazie all’attenzione e alla cura del musicologo Nicolas Dufetel, che ha recuperato i diversi manoscritti, l’«Avviso alla stamperia» e le annotazioni dello stesso Liszt, il progetto ha infine la compiutezza che meritava e che, sola, permette di apprezzare appieno la forza profetica delle parole di Liszt.Per Liszt, non poteva darsi musica senza poesia, l’opera lirica doveva mutare volto e voce, rinascere. Nessun dubbio, nessuna esitazione su chi dovesse essere il messia di questa rigenerazione: Richard Wagner.

This 223-page edition is comprised of 86 different technical exercises composed by Liszt during 1868 to 1880. Liszt intended these highly challenging exercises to build greater performance skills in virtuoso pianists. The complete series consists of twelve volumes, each one dealing with a different pianistic problem. This edition has been compiled from the original set to present the exercises in a reasonable length without harming the essence and effectiveness of the original work.

The foremost pianist-composer of his day, Franz Liszt unselfishly promoted the works of his fellow composers through his brilliant piano transcriptions of their music. Among his most inspired contributions to the literature were his legendary transcriptions of Franz Schubert's songs.This volume — the third and last in Dover's popular series of Liszt-Schubert song transcriptions — contains Schubert's complete Schwanengesang (Swan Song), including "Abschied," "Am Meer," "Das Fischermädchen," "Ständchen" (the world-famous "Serenade"), "Der Doppelganger," and nine other great lieder.Reproduced from extremely rare early editions edited by Liszt himself, these dazzling transcriptions retain all the lyric beauty and emotional depth of Schubert's original music, yet reflect Liszt's incomparable mastery of the difficult art of transcription from the original medium of voice and piano to that of solo piano. A modestly priced collection of hard-to-find treasures of 19th century literature, these unique facsimile reproductions will be prized by pianists and all lovers of fine music.

In the course of his long career as the outstanding pianist-composer of his time, Franz Liszt was a tireless champion of music by other composers, especially those whose works he felt deserved greater recognition. Beethoven's symphonies, Wagner's operas, and Schubert's songs were among the compositions Liszt chose to promote by transforming them from their original scoring into new conceptions for solo piano.This volume contains twelve great Schubert lieder in Liszt's brilliant transcriptions, including such well-known masterpieces as "Ave Maria," "Der Wanderer," "Die junge Nonne," "Gretchen am Spinnrade," and the unforgettable "Erlkönig."Reproduced from extremely rare early editions, this unique volume of transcriptions brings to pianists and music lovers the familiar beauty of Schubert's melodies in solo piano arrangements that reflect Liszt's incomparable mastery of the keyboard.

Die Uraufführung des Rigoletto (1851) markiert den ersten Höhepunkt in Verdis Schaffen. Die Oper, die auf ein Drama von Victor Hugo (Le Roi s´amuse, 1832) zurückgeht, ist ein Stück von bizarrer Logik, mit einer grotesken Mischung aus wilder Leidenschaft und schwarzem Humor, tragischem Ernst und verzweifeltem Spott. Verdi selbst sprach von ihr als von einer revolutionären Oper. Der Text wird in der hier vorgelegten Ausgabe im Original und einer wörtlichen deutschen Prosaübersetzung präsentiert.

When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoleon, who wrote to his beloved Josephine, "I awake consumed with thoughts of you..." Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved..." Dozens of intimate letters, coupled with over a score of period illustrations. Plus fascinating biographies, and insights into the couples' relationships-how they got there, the obstacles they faced, and what happened next. Poet warriors, from the first through the twentieth century, Ovid, Sir Walter Raleigh, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Shelley, Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Pierre Curie, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Admiral Peary, Woodrow Wilson, and many more.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Focusing on preserving cultural legacy, this hardcover edition is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series, which revives classical literature that has been largely unavailable for decades. The series aims to promote timeless works and ensure that significant pieces of world literature are not forgotten. By supporting this initiative, readers contribute to making thousands of international literary classics accessible in print once more, celebrating the enduring value of these remarkable texts.