Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886
- Author
- Alan Walker
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1996
- Extent
- 594 pages
- ISBN
- 0679425573
- Language
- English
- Type
- Biography / performance history
- Subject
- Franz Liszt
SCOPE & CONTENT
Franz Liszt, Volume Three: The Final Years, 1861–1886 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. Final volume of Walker’s biography, treating Liszt’s Rome–Weimar–Budapest “threefold life,” late experimental works, teaching, religious commitments, Wagner family relations and the final decades of international influence. The dossier treats the book not merely as a life narrative but as evidence for performance history, professional networks, repertory, institutions and reception where those elements are present in the source.
RESEARCH VALUE
Its principal research value is the combination of biographical chronology with evidence about Franz Liszt’s artistic work. First-person memoirs and near-contemporary accounts are identified as testimony rather than neutral fact, while later scholarly biographies are useful for checking chronology, correspondence, recordings and received anecdotes against documentary evidence.
BIOGRAPHICAL SCOPE
Final volume of Walker’s biography, treating Liszt’s Rome–Weimar–Budapest “threefold life,” late experimental works, teaching, religious commitments, Wagner family relations and the final decades of international influence.
RESEARCH USE
This curated record improves retrieval by title, author and subject name, and preserves edition-specific bibliographic information where it can be established safely. The physical document is never renamed or overwritten by this enrichment layer.
- Catalogue completeness
- 8 / 10 core bibliographic fields