title: The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (Cambridge Companions to Music)
author: Kenneth Hamilton
description: This collection comprises three essays on Liszt's career and artistic legacy and eight on his compositions and their performance. The scholarship is up-to-date, and the writing is engaging throughout. <br />Choice
zlib_text: **The Cambridge Companion to Liszt**
  
  This _Companion_ provides an up-to-date view of the music of Franz Liszt, its
  contemporary context and performance practice, written by some of the leading
  specialists in the field of nineteenth-century music studies. Although a core
  of Liszt’s piano music has always maintained a firm hold on the repertoire,
  his output was so vast, influential and multi-faceted that scholarship too has
  taken some time to assimilate his achievement. This book offers students and
  music lovers some of the latest views in an accessible form. Katharine Ellis,
  Alexander Rehding and James Deaville present the biographical and intellectual
  aspects of Liszt’s legacy; Kenneth Hamilton, James Baker and Anna Celenza give
  a detailed account of Liszt’s piano music, including approaches to
  performance; Monika Hennemann discusses Liszt’s Lieder; and Reeves Shulstad
  and Dolores Pesce survey his orchestral and choral music.
  
  Kenneth Hamilton is pianist-in-residence and senior lectur