Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Virtuosity and Liszt 1
6. Part One. Liszt, Virtuosity, and Performance
7. Chapter One. Après une Lecture de Czerny? Liszt’s Creative Virtuosity 41
8. Chapter Two. Transforming Virtuosity: Liszt and Nineteenth-Century Pianos 93
9. Chapter Three. Spirit and Mechanism: Liszt’s Early Piano Technique and Teaching 109
10. Chapter Four. Paths through the Lisztian Ossia 148
11. Chapter Five. Brahms “versus” Liszt: The Internalization of Virtuosity 186
12. Part Two. Lisztian Virtuosity: Theoretical Approaches
13. Chapter Six. The Practice of Pianism: Virtuosity and Oral History 221
14. Chapter Seven. Liszt’s Symbiosis: The Question of Virtuosity and the Concerto Arrangement of Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy 238
15. Chapter Eight. From the Brilliant Style to the Bravura Style: Reconceptualizing Lisztian Virtuosity 267
16. Part Three. Virtuosity and Anti-virtuosity in “Late Liszt”
17. Chapter Nine. Harmony, Gesture, and Virtuosity in Liszt’s Revisions: Shaping the Affective Journeys of the Cypress Pieces from Années de pèlerinage 3 311
18. Chapter Ten. Anti-Virtuosity and Musical Experimentalism: Liszt, Marie Jaëll, Debussy, and Others 346
19. Chapter Eleven. Virtuosity in Liszt’s Late Piano Works 387
20. Contributors 415
21. Index of Liszt’s Musical Works 417
22. General Index 423