
Liszt's 'Chopin'
A New Edition
Meirion Hughes(Author)
Manchester University Press
Will be published approx. on 15. October 2010
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-0-7190-8568-0 (ISBN)
Description
Passionate and pioneering, Liszt's biography of Chopin flaunts its author's celebrity while straddling the divide between the scholarly and the popular. In this volume Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context.
In his introduction Hughes explores the complex relationship between the two composers, the highly charged political context in which the book was written, and the discourse of cultural nationalism and progressivism that dominates content. He argues that Chopin (put in italics) was more than a tribute to an erstwhile friend, but rather a polemic of national music rooted in the politics of that 'year of revolutions', 1848-9.
Hughes remains faithful to the original while putting clarity before strict adherence to what is, by general agreement, a quirky text. Controversial in its approach, Liszt's 'Chopin' challenges the long-held view of the memoir is as lightweight, inaccurate portrait of its subject, but rather as one of the most important and daring musical biographies of the nineteenth century. -- .
In his introduction Hughes explores the complex relationship between the two composers, the highly charged political context in which the book was written, and the discourse of cultural nationalism and progressivism that dominates content. He argues that Chopin (put in italics) was more than a tribute to an erstwhile friend, but rather a polemic of national music rooted in the politics of that 'year of revolutions', 1848-9.
Hughes remains faithful to the original while putting clarity before strict adherence to what is, by general agreement, a quirky text. Controversial in its approach, Liszt's 'Chopin' challenges the long-held view of the memoir is as lightweight, inaccurate portrait of its subject, but rather as one of the most important and daring musical biographies of the nineteenth century. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8568-0 (9780719085680)
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Person
Meirion Hughes is a freelance historian and writer -- .
Content
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Translator's note
Liszt's 'Chopin'
Part One: Introduction
I. 'Comrades' and 'Friends'
II. 'Men of the Future'
III. Voices
IV. Some Contexts and Conclusions
Part Two: Text
F.Chopin
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Bibliography -- .
Acknowledgements
Translator's note
Liszt's 'Chopin'
Part One: Introduction
I. 'Comrades' and 'Friends'
II. 'Men of the Future'
III. Voices
IV. Some Contexts and Conclusions
Part Two: Text
F.Chopin
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Bibliography -- .