Collected Writings of Franz Liszt

During his early years Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso his adventures highlighted by his entrée into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita Hall-Swadley’s The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt Liszt’s work as a music essayist and journalist is on full display. In his essays readers will see the influence of the revolutionary theories of Hugues-Felicité Robert de Lamennais Victor Hugo and François-René de Chateaubriand as Liszt boldly calls for social reforms on behalf of musicians and musical institutions from demands for a repertoire of church music of divine praise to the timely publication of inexpensive music editions.