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Overview
This book is about three sets of etudes by Liszt: the Etude en douze exercices (1826); its reworking as Douzes grandes etudes (1837); and their reworking as Douzes etudes d'execution transcendante (1851). It is also a book about nineteenth-century instrumental music in general because the three works invite the exploration of features characteristic of the early Romantic era in music. These include a composer-performer culture; the concept of virtuosity; the significance of recomposition; music and the poetic; and the consolidation of a musical work-concept.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521036047
- ISBN-10: 0521036046
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: April 2007
- Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 252
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