LISZT PIANO SONATA MONOGRAPHS - Franz Liszt's Precursor Sonata of 1849: a trial run in the Master's inner circle : www.lisztsonata.com

ISBN-13: 9783844208429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str.

Gerard Carter and Martin Adler

Opis

A discovery which opens a new chapter in the Liszt Sonata research.

Franz Liszt completed his Piano Sonata in B minor at Weimar in 1853. It met with a mixed reception from the musical establishment of the day but is now a part of the repertoire of every leading pianist and may even be the most frequently recorded and performed piano work ever written. It is the outstanding example of the compositional process of thematic transformation. The grandeur and lyrical power of its themes, based on three motifs so clearly stated at the outset, place it at the pinnacle of the piano literature.Liszt composed his Sonata in 1852-53, or so we have been led to believe. We now know, however that by June 1849 Liszt had already composed a precursor Sonata and tested it by performance to his inner circle. This monograph explains in detail the recently discovered and researched facts obtained by the authors on which this entirely novel proposition is based and places these facts in their historical and musicological context.Contents:1818-1848: Influences of Beethoven, Hummel, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Alkan1849 January (est.): Liszt's Sketch of Motifs A and B1849: Liszt Sketches the Andante sostenuto1849 January (est.): Liszt Commences Serious Compositional Work on his Sonata1849 May 30: Liszt Plays "Some New Compositions" for Bülow and Winterberger1849 May or June: Liszt Tells Bülow that he has "Begun Bigger Works"1849 May or June (est.): Liszt Plays his Precursor Sonata to his Inner Weimar Circle1849 July (est.): Kühmstedt Starts to Compose his Fugue Based on Liszt's Motifs B and C1850 June (est.): Liszt Performs Kühmstedt's Fugue1850 September: Bülow Plans to Visit Kühmstedt1853/54: Liszt's Sonata Completed and PublishedLiszt's Annotations on the Szendy Copy in BudapestLiszt's Sonata Compared to Kühmstedt's FugueThe appendices include all the original sources with translations, comments by Prof. Dr. Tibor Szász and a facsimile of the whole of Kühmstedt's Fugue. A number of illustrations are included as well as numerous musical examples.Contact: info@lisztsonata.comMore information: www.lisztsonata.com

O autorze

Martin Adler, Gerard Carter and
Gerard Carter ( 1943) is the author of four books on the Liszt Sonata and has produced CDs of historic recordings as well as of his own performance. Martin Adler ( 1973) has a doctorate of natural sciences from the University of Marburg and runs an internet consultancy in Bonn where he lives with his wife and their three children.