Liszt’s experiments with literature

Gamrat, Małgorzata

Liszt’s experiments with literature

dc.contributor.author	Gamrat, Małgorzata
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-13T08:41:04Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-13T08:41:04Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	Liszt’s aspiration to create his own musical language and to find new tools of musical expression was unusually strong almost from the very beginning of his artistic career. Not only did the artist gladly spend his time among writers and read numerous texts, but he also turned to the technical and expressive means originating in literature. Among the most important attempts to work out new musical means on the basis of literary devices we may list: a strong emphasis on the sound factor, formal freedom and mixing of genres, composing a musical cycle on the basis of a poetic one (a narrative whole, leitmotifs), appealing to emotions by means of the appropriate selection of an oeuvre’s parameters, in particular articulation and dynamics, poetic quotations preceding the score, transposition of literary genres into the field of music, or synthesis of poetry and music in songs, symphony choruses, and piano transcriptions of songs. Album d’un voyageur is an excellent example of Liszt’s borrowings from literature and a very individual cycle with literary value. It is a story of a voyage across a small part of Europe in search of self-understanding; it is also a history of rebellion and the doubts which come as its consequence, as well as finding peace through contact with nature and through searching for God. Liszt created here an unusual oeuvre that combines poetic images and sounds. In 1884 Liszt declared that the most perfect form of synthesis of poetry and music is transcription of songs. It is here that music interprets poetry with its own means, which are often invented for the purposes of this synthesis. On the basis of the transcription of the song Ich liebe dich from 1860 we may observe how music becomes a language capable of imitating the intonation of the human voice, expressing emotions and, symbolically, relying on a programme, also expressing ideas.	pl
dc.identifier.citation	"Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology", 2013, nr 13, s. 107-125	pl
dc.identifier.issn	1734-2406
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/4028
dc.language.iso	en	pl
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM i Wydawnictwo PTPN	pl
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	Franz Liszt	pl
dc.subject	Album d’un voyageur	pl
dc.subject	Ich liebe dich	pl
dc.subject	Friedrich Riickert	pl
dc.subject	poetic music	pl
dc.subject	musical epic	pl
dc.subject	piano transcription	pl
dc.subject	romantic song	pl
dc.title	Liszt’s experiments with literature	pl
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	pl