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Franz Liszt

By James Huneker

(3.5 stars) • 10 reviews

A prodigious musician's journey intertwines fame, controversy, and solitude as he reshapes the landscape of Romantic music.

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2012-05-21
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Summary

"Franz Liszt" by James Huneker is a story about the life of Franz Liszt, a super talented pianist and composer, who lived in a time when music was changing a lot. The book looks at how he became famous and how he changed music with his new ideas. It also talks about his personal life, showing that he was a complicated person with many sides to him. The story tells how he worked with other famous musicians, like Richard Wagner, and how they sometimes had problems. The book also shows how people loved Liszt, but sometimes he got into trouble, and it made him feel lonely. This biography is a journey into how Liszt's life affected his music and how he expressed himself through his art.

About the Author

James Gibbons Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time. From 1892 to 1899, he was the husband of the sculptor Clio Hinton.

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