Franz Liszt by Alan Walker

Franz Liszt by Alan Walker

The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.

You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed.--D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books

A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire.--Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal

What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers is that he is equally strong on the music and the life. A formidable musicologist with a lively polemical style, he discusses the composer's works with greater understanding and clarity than any previous biographer. And whereas many have recycled the same erroneous, often damaging information, Walker has relied on his own prodigious, globe-trotting research, a project spanning twenty-five years. The result is a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival.--Elliot Ravetz, Time

The prose is so lively that the reader is often swept along by the narrative. This three-part work. is now the definitive work on Liszt in English and belongs in all music collections.--Library Journal

The James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award were among the honors bestowed to Alan Walker's authoritative three-volume biography of Liszt, Franz Liszt. His work has appeared in The Musical Quarterly, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Educational Supplement, among other publications. Walker, an emeritus professor at McMaster University, was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986 and received the Knight's Cross of the Republic of Hungary's Order of Merit in 2012.