Portrait of Liszt: By Himself and His Contemporaries

by Adrian Williams

Franz Liszt has been described as "one of the most wonderful human beings that have ever lived, and one of the greatest and most original artists of the nineteenth century". Born in Hungary in 1811, at the very moment when the Great Comet blazed most brillantly in the heavens, he rapidly achieved fame as a phenomenally gifted pianist, and in the course of his long life, which ended in 1886, he travelled extensively through Europe. So extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198161506
• ISBN13: 9780198161509
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"