Liszt as Transcriber

Using a host of interdisciplinary methods and primary source materials, this book provides a comprehensive survey of Liszt's lifelong involvement with the transcription, in which he assumed the roles of composer, collaborator, propagandist, commemorator, philosopher, and artist while simultaneously disseminating - often critically - the music of Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, Wagner, and other eighteenth and nineteenth century composers.  By recognizing transcription as an extraordinarily flexible tool for Liszt and his contemporaries, "Liszt as Transcriber" provides numerous musical, cultural, and historical contexts for this fundamentally important practice of the period.  Includes 5 b&w photos and 76 music examples.  Hardback book, 314 p.