{"product_id":"2026200015541-secondhand-liszt","title":"Liszt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt — virtuoso, visionary, and the most electrifying pianist of the nineteenth century — comes vividly to life in Sacheverell Sitwell's magisterial biography, a portrait as passionate and complex as its subject. Liszt chronicles the extraordinary arc of a life that spanned from the drawing rooms of Weimar to the monasteries of Rome, tracing the genius of a man who reinvented the piano recital, pioneered the symphonic poem, and seduced half of Europe with nothing more than his art and his charisma. Sitwell presents Liszt not merely as a musician, but as a cultural phenomenon — a figure who stood at the very crossroads of Romanticism and modernity, reshaping the landscape of Western music with breathtaking ambition.\n\nSitwell's prose carries the same sweeping grandeur as Liszt's own compositions, richly atmospheric and deeply learned, drawing on an intimate knowledge of European art, literature, and society to place its subject within the full sweep of cultural history. The biography argues with quiet conviction that Liszt's legacy reaches far beyond his thunderous concert performances, illuminating his profound influence on Wagner, Debussy, and the generations of composers who followed in his wake. Written with the eye of a poet and the rigour of a historian, this is a work that rewards the curious reader at every turn — leaving one to wonder whether any life, before or since, has burned quite so brilliantly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203209240795,"sku":"2026200015541-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/22303dec-b366-4c57-beba-ba8584c2df94.png?v=1788145785","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015541-secondhand-liszt","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}