As Yale’s exhibit on Liszt argues, 'The Sonata offers the virtuosity and grandeur that everyone would expect from Liszt, but it also demonstrates an ingenious mastery of form’ ( Yale).īy 1854, Liszt’s heyday as a travelling virtuoso and celebrity had largely passed, giving way to his years in Germany settled in Weimar with the married Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, with whom he had a public affair from the mid-1840s to the early 1860s. 17) to Liszt in 1839 (but had been institutionalized in 1854 after suffering from decades of severe depression). Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B-minor, his only surviving sonata, was completed in 1853 and dedicated to Robert Schumann, who had dedicated his Fantasie in C (Op. And what an acclaim it was! A veritable insanity, one unheard of in the annals of furore! And yet, how convulsively his mere appearance affected them! How boisterous was the applause which rang to met him! Strange, thought I, these Parisians, who have seen Napoleon, who had to win one battle after another in order to hold their attention! Now they are acclaiming our Franz Liszt. before which Liszt played, quite alone, or rather, accompanied solely by his genius. When formerly I heard of the fainting spells which broke out in Germany and specially Berlin, when Liszt showed himself there, I shrugged my shoulder pityingly The ennobled and nevertheless noble Liszt, he is here! He is here, the modern Amphion, who sets in movement the stones of the Cologne Minster with the sounds of his strings Heinrich Heine, German poet and man of letters, coined the term ’ Lisztomania’ for the ‘madness’ that overtook Liszt’s fans (men and women) as they queued to see him perform: Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, Liszt performed virtuoso pieces in numerous capital cities and smaller towns across Europe, famed not only for his amazing dexterity and artistry in composition but his performing presence. Inspired by Paganini, Berlioz, Hadyn and Beethoven (both of whom had known his father, court pianist Adam liszt), Franz Liszt set out in the early 1830s to become a world-renowned musician. Of the great composers of the 19th century, few was so celebrated in his own time as Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886).
VICTORIAN HISTORY MEME: works of art įranz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B-minor (S.178) (1853-4)
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