Dr. Alan Walker is professor emeritus of music at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Walker’s three-volume, prize-winning biography of Franz Liszt was a project that took him twenty-five years to ...
This is a biography for those with an interest in the composer’s life. He was charismatic and handsome, with many mistresses, and put on a great show. But something is missing Liszt is wonderful and ...
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar. By Oliver Hilmes. Translated by Stewart Spencer. Yale University Press; 353 pages; $38 and £25. AN INFECTIOUS disease swept through musical Europe in the ...