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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor
Author(s): Hamilton (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 12 Jan. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 108 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521469635
- ISBN-13: 9780521469630
Book Description
Liszt’s B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This handbook opens with a survey of Liszt’s early attempts at sonata composition – which include some well-known pieces that, hitherto, have been unrecognised as sonata forms – and clears away some of the persistent myths regarding programme music in Liszt’s output. In the central chapters, built around an analysis of the B minor Sonata, Kenneth Hamilton discusses various interpretative approaches, arguing that the contradictory writings on the subject stem from the deliberate formal ambiguity of the piece itself – one reason for its perennial fascination, perhaps. The book concludes with a chapter on the performance practice and the performing history of the work, which should be of particular interest to pianists.
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Book Description
This book examines Liszt’s B minor Sonata – regarded as a pinnacle of Romantic piano music.
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Liszt’s B minor Sonata is now regarded as his finest work for piano, and one of the pinnacles of Romantic piano music. This is the first book to elucidate this ground-breaking piece for the general reader.
