Book contents
- Liszt in Context
- Composers in Context
- Liszt in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I People and Places
- Part II Society, Thought and Culture
- Chapter 10 The ‘War’ of the Romantics
- Chapter 11 Visual Art and Artists
- Chapter 12 Literature and Literary Heroes
- Chapter 13 Liszt, Women and Salon Culture
- Chapter 14 Liszt as a Writer
- Chapter 15 Patronage
- Chapter 16 Liszt and the Networks of Revolution
- Chapter 17 Liszt’s National Identity
- Chapter 18 Liszt and Religion
- Part III Performance and Composition
- Part IV Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 16 - Liszt and the Networks of Revolution
from Part II - Society, Thought and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2021
- Liszt in Context
- Composers in Context
- Liszt in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I People and Places
- Part II Society, Thought and Culture
- Chapter 10 The ‘War’ of the Romantics
- Chapter 11 Visual Art and Artists
- Chapter 12 Literature and Literary Heroes
- Chapter 13 Liszt, Women and Salon Culture
- Chapter 14 Liszt as a Writer
- Chapter 15 Patronage
- Chapter 16 Liszt and the Networks of Revolution
- Chapter 17 Liszt’s National Identity
- Chapter 18 Liszt and Religion
- Part III Performance and Composition
- Part IV Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
In view of the propinquity of the French Revolution and nineteenth-century society, Liszt’s progressive attitudes have sometimes caused the artist to be cast as a ‘revolutionary’. In July 1830, Liszt did indeed sketch a Symphonie révolutionnaire, and while the work was never completed, its composer used elements from it in his later symphonic poem Héroïde funèbre. Between 1830 and 1854, the insurrectional dimensions of the July Revolution would metamorphosize, in his mind, into a meditation upon the relationship between heroism and death, apt in a revolutionary era, now however undertaken when immediate danger to the social order seemed to be a thing of the past.
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- Liszt in Context , pp. 141 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021