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Book of Liszts
J Spurling
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Description for Book of Liszts
Hardcover. A biography of Franz Liszt (1811-86) whose extraordinary career as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist - whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople - made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. Series: Seagull World Literature. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 243 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592.
The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist - whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople - made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszt's own innovative compositions and sparkling piano transcriptions of other composers' work, John Spurling here takes up the ambitious task of writing a fictionalized biography of Liszt's life. Liszt himself once said, "My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact," and Spurling's fifteen self-contained ... Read more
The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-86) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist - whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople - made him the nineteenth-century equivalent of a modern international pop star. In the spirit of Liszt's own innovative compositions and sparkling piano transcriptions of other composers' work, John Spurling here takes up the ambitious task of writing a fictionalized biography of Liszt's life. Liszt himself once said, "My biography is more to be invented than written after the fact," and Spurling's fifteen self-contained ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
Series
Seagull World Literature
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497941
SKU
V9781906497941
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About J Spurling
John Spurling, born in Kenya to English parents, is a playwright, novelist, and critic. In addition to numerous plays, he is also the author of the novels The Ragged End and After Zenda.
Reviews for Book of Liszts
"What is the novelist's dearest dream?...Is it perhaps to be endowed with that magic talent that can weave so potent a spell that the reader is unable to stop turning the pages, such is the desire to know what happens next? John Spurling has that talent." -Spectator "It is not uncommon that successful playwrights...should turn to the novel...but few can ... Read more