Virtuosity and the Musical Work
Subtitle: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521814942
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Virtuosity in music; History and criticism; Etude en douze exercises; Music/Songbooks; Musical Instruments - Piano; Music; Liszt, Franz,; Etudes d'execution transcendante; Liszt, Franz; Music / General; Criticism and interpretation; General; 1811-1886; 1811-1886; 19th century; Grandes etudes; Grandes âetudes
First sentence: In 1827, when Liszt was sixteen years old, a volume of twelve exercises, almost certainly composed in the early months of the previous year, was published by Boisselot in Marseilles.