Defending Liszt: Felix Draeseke on the Symphonic Poems

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Permissions and Credits xiii
5. Preface xv
6. PART I. ESSAYS
7. Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination 3
8. Heine, Liszt, and the Song of the Future 39
9. The Battle Against Instrumental Virtuosity in the Early Nineteenth Century 75
10. Prophet and Populace in Liszt’s “Beethoven” Cantatas 113
11. “Just Two Words. Enormous Success” Liszt’s 1838 Vienna Concerts 167
12. Liszt, Wagner, and Unfolding Form: Orpheus and the Genesis of Tristan und Isolde 231
13. Publishing Paraphrases and Creating Collectors 255
14. PART II. BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS
15. Liszt on the Artist in Society 291
16. The First Biography: Joseph d’Ortigue on Franz Liszt at Age Twenty-Three 303
17. Ludwig Rellstab’s. Biographical Sketch of Liszt 335
18. From the Biographer’s Workshop: Lina Ramann’s Questionnaires to Liszt 361
19. PART III. CRITICISM AND RECEPTION
20. Fétis’s Review of the Transcendental Etudes 427
21. Heinrich Heine on Liszt 441
22. “Even His Critics Must Concede”: Press Accounts of Liszt at the Bonn Beethoven Festival 467
23. Defending Liszt: Felix Draeseke on the Symphonic Poems 485
24. PART IV. REFLECTIONS ON FRANZ LISZT
25. A Mirror to the Nineteenth Century 517
26. Index 569
27. Notes on the Contributors 583