Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

by Oliver Hilmes

Book Overview

An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world's first international megastar

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300228759
• ISBN13: 9780300228755
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.9"