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Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2 by Franz Liszt is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on letters of franz liszt…

This dossier covers Franz Schubert and His World, a significant bibliographic resource associated with Christopher H. Gibbs and Morten Solvik. The volume is useful because it helps place its subject within a wider historical, analytical or documentary context and complements the rest of the Library catalogue with a…

Kreissle’s work was the first full-length biography of Schubert and drew on testimony from people within the composer’s Viennese circle, including material gathered for an earlier projected biography by Ferdinand Luib. Volume I covers the formative and central years and preserves a large body of early Schubert tradition.

Volume II covers Schubert’s final years from 1824 to 1828 and moves beyond narrative biography into character assessment, general survey and repertory documentation. George Grove’s appendix is itself historically important because it records the nineteenth-century rediscovery of Schubert manuscripts and symphonic sources.

Franz Liszt, Volume One: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. First volume of Walker’s landmark Liszt biography, reconstructing childhood, Paris, Paganini influence, virtuoso touring, Marie d’Agoult, early compositions and the social world that created Liszt’s unprecedented celebrity. The dossier treats the book…

Franz Liszt, Volume Two: The Weimar Years, 1848–1861 is a substantial biographical source on Franz Liszt. Covers Liszt’s Weimar period, orchestral conducting, symphonic poems, pedagogical circle, Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, the New German School and the development of his mature compositional identity. The dossier treats the book not…

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…

This curated dossier identifies Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt as a distinct Library resource and makes it discoverable through normalized title and author forms. The work is valuable as a historical source, critical study or documentary witness and belongs to…

This curated dossier identifies The Life of Chopin by Franz Liszt as a distinct Library resource and makes it discoverable through normalized title and author forms. The work is valuable as a historical source, critical study or documentary witness and belongs to the core literature surrounding musical biography,…

This biography or documentary study follows Franz Schubert through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…

This expanded dossier treats Karajan: A Life as a substantial source on Herbert von Karajan. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person testimony,…