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# In-depth musical analysis of Liszt's compositions 1700 pages of rich, detailed biography Covers 25 years of Liszt’s final, transformative era Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861–1886

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> 🎹 Dive deep into the final symphony of a musical legend!

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## Key Features

- • **Legend Demystified:** Cuts through myths to present the most accurate portrait of Liszt’s complex life.
- • **Epic Depth & Detail:** A monumental 3-volume biography with 1700 pages of meticulously researched content.
- • **Cultural Time Capsule:** Immerses you in 19th-century European music and society like never before.
- • **Collector’s Treasure:** A must-have for classical music aficionados and history buffs alike.
- • **Musical Genius Unveiled:** Expert analyses reveal the true artistry behind Liszt’s compositions and influence.

## Overview

This used book in good condition offers an exhaustive, three-volume biography of Franz Liszt’s last 25 years, blending scholarly research with vivid storytelling. Spanning 1700 pages, it provides unparalleled insight into Liszt’s life, music, and cultural impact, making it essential for classical music lovers and history enthusiasts seeking the definitive Liszt narrative.

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Review: Full-Length Portrait of Franz Liszt - How to review such a gigantic and magnificent biography as Alan Walker's on Franz Liszt and do full justice to its three bulky volumes and its about 1700 pages, all of them well stuffed with information? Almost impossible! This is probably one of the best biographies ever written, one of the most fascinating, one of the most readable and attractive. It is not only a ravishing story of a composer's life that is more riveting than most composers', glorious in its palmy days as well as a little tragic and sentimental in the third volume's account for his old age and its decay and fall, full of alcoholism, depression and diseases; sensationally super-romantic in his relationship with women and illegitimate children as well as sympathetically generous and open-handed in his contacts with other musicians and composers and musical disciples - and ultimately the pious Catholic Abbé Liszt taking holy orders. It is also a biography covering Liszt's music with initiated though always very lisible analyses, a great surplus in a biography, as biographies often turn their backs on the real reason why a composer, a writer, a painter is well worth being biographied. Finally, it gives a grandiose survey of the musical and cultural life in Europe in the middle of the 19th century, stunningly rich and meaty and well-informed, continuously offering you new aspects of an extremely enthralling field. Walker's ambition has been to weed in the marshland of legends and errors and inaccuracies in the prevalent image of Liszt's life, spread since the composer's own lifetime. It is the scholarly result of his incredible efforts to get a clearer picture of his life. This is a truer picture of a mysteriously legendary composer than we have had earlier - though it is a very kind and maybe a bit uncritical portrait we get of this charismatic super-genius. Liszt's position in European music and culture in all during his active life was incomprehensibly great, maybe greater and more influential than any composer ever had. It is a tremendous adventure to read about all his glorious triumphs as a virtuoso pianist and as a composer, a conductor, a teacher and a musical promotor, a writer, a freedom symbol and patriot, a friend of Chopin's and Wagner's and many other activities and characteristics. I have been rapturously plunged into these three volumes for a very long time, and I wish every music lover to enjoy them as much as I have. All three of them!
Review: Excellent - All three volumes are outstanding. Rife with detail, impeccable research and scholarship, very readable. If you are interested in the history of music, this biography is essential.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #208,558 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #34 in Classical Musician Biographies #259 in Classical Music (Books) #369 in Music History & Criticism (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 102 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Full-Length Portrait of Franz Liszt
*by B***N on March 30, 2010*

How to review such a gigantic and magnificent biography as Alan Walker's on Franz Liszt and do full justice to its three bulky volumes and its about 1700 pages, all of them well stuffed with information? Almost impossible! This is probably one of the best biographies ever written, one of the most fascinating, one of the most readable and attractive. It is not only a ravishing story of a composer's life that is more riveting than most composers', glorious in its palmy days as well as a little tragic and sentimental in the third volume's account for his old age and its decay and fall, full of alcoholism, depression and diseases; sensationally super-romantic in his relationship with women and illegitimate children as well as sympathetically generous and open-handed in his contacts with other musicians and composers and musical disciples - and ultimately the pious Catholic Abbé Liszt taking holy orders. It is also a biography covering Liszt's music with initiated though always very lisible analyses, a great surplus in a biography, as biographies often turn their backs on the real reason why a composer, a writer, a painter is well worth being biographied. Finally, it gives a grandiose survey of the musical and cultural life in Europe in the middle of the 19th century, stunningly rich and meaty and well-informed, continuously offering you new aspects of an extremely enthralling field. Walker's ambition has been to weed in the marshland of legends and errors and inaccuracies in the prevalent image of Liszt's life, spread since the composer's own lifetime. It is the scholarly result of his incredible efforts to get a clearer picture of his life. This is a truer picture of a mysteriously legendary composer than we have had earlier - though it is a very kind and maybe a bit uncritical portrait we get of this charismatic super-genius. Liszt's position in European music and culture in all during his active life was incomprehensibly great, maybe greater and more influential than any composer ever had. It is a tremendous adventure to read about all his glorious triumphs as a virtuoso pianist and as a composer, a conductor, a teacher and a musical promotor, a writer, a freedom symbol and patriot, a friend of Chopin's and Wagner's and many other activities and characteristics. I have been rapturously plunged into these three volumes for a very long time, and I wish every music lover to enjoy them as much as I have. All three of them!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent
*by S***H on December 1, 2024*

All three volumes are outstanding. Rife with detail, impeccable research and scholarship, very readable. If you are interested in the history of music, this biography is essential.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The final, superb volume of Franz Liszt’s biography by Alan Walker
*by C***S on June 10, 2019*

This volume of Alan Walker’s biography of Alan Walker’s Liszt biography covers the last 25 years of Liszt’s life, from 1861 to 1886. Walker shows how Liszt set the paradigm for the master class where pianists, singers and instrumentalists go to a senior figure of international for guidance in matters of interpretation of music. Walker also give detailed analysis of how Liszt’s music anticipated much of the development of music in the 20th-century with piano pieces embracing atonality and tonal clusters. Where Liszt’s earlier music anticipated the music of Wagner and even Debussy, his later music looked forward to Arnold Schoenberg and Bela Bartok. The personal drama of Liszt’s life is well-covered with his complicated relationships with friends and family. In short, a highly recommended book.

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