4 Translating the Orchestra: Liszt’s Two-Piano Arrangements of His Symphonic Poems

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Approaching the Reproductive Arts 14
5. 2 “Partitions de Piano” 37
6. 3 Between “Text” and “Event”: Liszt’s Guillaume Tell Overture 57
7. 4 Translating the Orchestra: Liszt’s Two-Piano Arrangements of His Symphonic Poems 78
8. 5 Interpretive Fidelity to Gypsy Creativity: Liszt’s Representations of Hungarian Gypsy Cimbalom Playing 102
9. Conclusions: Recurring Techniques and Aesthetics 145
10. Appendix: Liszt’s Preface to His Piano Arrangements of Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies in the Breitkopf & Härtel Edition, 1840 159
11. Notes 163
12. Bibliography 203
13. Index of Liszt’s Works by Genre 221
14. Subject Index 225