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Franz Liszt and his World.(Book review)

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| June 01, 2007 | Trippett, David | COPYRIGHT 2007 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Franz Liszt and his World. Edited by Dana Gooley and Christopher Gibbs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. [xx, 587 p. ISBN 0-691-12902-9. $24.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.

 
  "I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that 
  Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a 
  myth, which is rather unfair ..." 
 
  (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1)

With this latest volume from the Bard Music Festival series, an empirically plural Liszt is finally in a position to slay the more familiar, anecdotally mythic "Liszt." Were the pianist-composer still a Merlin ...

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