Title: Revolution and religion in the music of Liszt /
Authors: Merrick, Paul.
Date: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xvi, 328 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, fascim. ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: M
Contents: 1830: a revolutionary symphony -- 1834: Lamennais and Words of a believer -- 1848: revolutions and a Mass -- Weimar: Liszt, the Church and Wagner -- 1861: Rome, Cardinal Hohenlohe and Princess Wittgenstein -- 1865: minor orders -- Liszt and Palestrina: the plan to reform church music -- The Masses -- The psalms -- The oratorios St Elizabeth and Christus -- The shorter choral works -- The late religious works and Les morts -- Liszt's programmatic use of fugue -- Liszt's Cross morif and the Piano sonata in B minor -- Liszt's path as a composer.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Sheffield University). Includes index.