A Single Crash of the Cymbals
Roger Parker, 7 December 1989
Franz Liszt. Vol. II: The Weimar Years 1848-1861
by Alan Walker.
Faber, 626 pp., £35, August 1989,0 571 15322 4 Show More
by Alan Walker.
Faber, 626 pp., £35, August 1989,
Franz Liszt: A Chronicle of his Life in Pictures and Documents
by Ernst Burger, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Princeton, 358 pp., £45, October 1989,0 691 09133 1 Show More
by Ernst Burger, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Princeton, 358 pp., £45, October 1989,
“... in Walker’s account, simply because the biographer feels unable to criticise his hero. Ernest Burger’s ‘documentary biography’ of Liszt, translated from the 1986 German edition, is in some ways a valuable supplement to Walker’s biography. Though it offers a fairly detailed chronology of the life and works, the principal focus is on visual ... ”
