Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, Date: 1987. Hardcover. Good+/Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, block and dj.). Brown cloth boards with red title block and gilt lettering on spine; tan dj with bw illustration, mylar cover; xvi, 328 pp; bw portrait frontispiece; bw illustrations and music. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Sheffield University. Contents include: 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. 1987. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521326273 US

ISBN10: 0521326273, ISBN13: 9780521326278, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/ New York] Hardcover Brown cloth boards with red title block and gilt lettering on spine; tan dj with bw illustration, mylar cover; xvi, 328 pp; bw portrait frontispiece; bw illustrations and music. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Sheffield University. Contents include: 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. Good+/Good+ (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, block and dj.)
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Date: 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This study of a hitherto neglected aspect of Liszt and his music aims to restore a balanced view of both man and artist. In contrast to the familiar portrayal of the virtuoso pianist, Liszt is considered here as a serious man of ideas: in tracing the composer's relationships and attitudes to the twin themes of revolution and religion, Paul Merrick finds much of Liszt's music, both secular and sacred, to be inspired by the same deeply felt religious conviction that also governed his private life from an early age. The first part of the book is primarily biographical and considers Liszt's reactions to the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, his relationship with the Abbe Lamennais, the Comtesse d' Agoult, Princess Wittgenstein and Wagner, and contains the first convincing explanation for the sudden cancellation of Liszt's marriage to Princess Wittgenstein. The remaining sections consider the church music and the programmatic music that is related to this. Fine copy of book, dust jacket is a little faded. 1987. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521326273 9780521326278 [GB]

ISBN10: 0521326273, ISBN13: 9780521326278, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Very Good
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