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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Composer of the Week: Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Episode 5: Whispers and Laments

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

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Episode 5: Whispers and Laments

Whispers and Laments

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Whispers and Laments

Donald Macleod focuses on the music of Liszt's final years.

Donald Macleod focuses on the music of Liszt's final years, when there was a shift from virtuosic exuberance to dissonance, silence and abandoned endings.

There was a shift in Liszt's musical style in the last years of his life, from virtuosic exuberance to dissonance, silence and abandoned endings. During this time there was a rapprochement between the composer and his daughter Cosima, from whom Liszt had been estranged over her affair with Wagner. Donald Macleod explores the music of Liszt's final years, including pieces written in response to his premonition of Wagner's death, and a piece written shortly before Liszt's own death on a visit to Cosima in Bayreuth in 1885.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Liszt

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Liszt, including his early life, touring, his music written in Weimar and Rome, and his later works

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