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A Study On Performing The Hungarian Rhapsodies In The Liszt Tradition, Nicholas Mark Williams
A Study On Performing The Hungarian Rhapsodies In The Liszt Tradition, Nicholas Mark Williams
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies (1851, 1853) have long been among the most popular collections of piano music. They have also long garnered a reputation for “superficial brilliance and effect” which seems to have influenced the way that famous pianists play the works in public. But would a performer immersed in the Liszt tradition have approached them differently? This dissertation aims to promote a re-evaluation of the Hungarian Rhapsodies from this perspective: considering Liszt’s own ideas on music and performance, the writings and recordings of his pupils, and Liszt’s book Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie (1859).