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 13 - Liszt, Women and Salon Culture
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
No well-known European musician in the nineteenth century retained such an extensive network of female contacts who challenged traditional feminine roles as Franz Liszt. Indeed, I would argue that it was precisely such women who inspired Franz Liszt, who attracted him and entered into a reciprocal process of intellectual, artistic, companionable or erotic approximation with him. Such women had either already independently broken the traditional barriers of class and gender roles – as, for example, the writers Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859) and George Sand (1804–76) – or were encouraged through their encounter with Liszt to critical self-development, as, for example, the salonnière and later writer Marie d’Agoult (1805–76).2 The women mentioned belong to the context of European salon culture,3 which had started to revive with the movement of bourgeois artists away from the courts.
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- Liszt in Context , pp. 114 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021