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Music Appreciation
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Niccolò Paganini1782-1840
Franz Liszt1811-1886
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Virtuoso firstComposer second
Musical Quality vs. Public Purpose?
Right-hand technique Intonation, phrasing
Left-hand techniqueFlexibility, speed
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Unequaled today?
Long fingersThree octaves over four strings
Double harmonics
Legato and pizzicato
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Where?Why not published
Sergei Rachmaninoff “Variations on a Theme by Paganini”
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ReactionDiabolical!Fear and fascinatedCritics
Demonized yet awed
Concerts as “events”OverexposureMarketingBroken strings
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Debuted at 10 Toured until 18 Mistress (“Kept Man”)
Elisa Baciocchi Sister of Neapolean
Perfected violin technique for over 10 yearsReappeared
CelebrityFollowing/fans/groupies
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Elisa Baciocchi
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1901-1987 Virtuoso technique
Flamboyant Israel tour, 1953
Richard Strauss: “Violin Sonata” Attack
Defected to US in 1970 Shoulder damage
Paganini Caprice No. 24
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Franz Liszt 1811-1886
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Student of SalieriDebuted at 9
Beethoven’s “kiss”
Prince Esterházy
Disenchantedphilosophy, religion, literature
Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine
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Inspired by Paganini“Kept Man”
Countess Marie d'AgoultChildren, including Cosmia
Virtuoso pianistSimilar fame
Profound musicianNew language, like Chopin
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ConcertsFirst solo “recital” format
SocietyMusical IntellectualReligious
Lisztomania!
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CharityChurches, hospitals, schools
Young musicians“Who’s Who” list of students
Hungarian roots
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PriesthoodAbee
Sacred Music
Tone Poem Faust Symphony, Liebestraum
Very strange!
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Huge ego vs. musical humility
virtuoso personality vs. kind, generous friend
Great “lover” and “womanizer” vs. spiritual, humanitarian ideals“Dies Irae”“Mephisto Waltz”“Todentanz”
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Relationship with LisztSchoolingMusical education
Hans von BülowFavored conductor
Liszt and WagerMarried Cosima (two children)
Richard WagnerAffair and three illegitimate childrenMarriage and four children
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Disowned by Liszt
Denounced by von Bülow
“Frau Wagner”
Age difference: 24 years Three children Bayreuth Festival
Director and producer: 31 years
Anti-Semite
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Romantic Ideals
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Why?
Celebration of the inexplicable, the super-human physical accomplishments of vocal and dance
technique
Story told through non traditional methods dance and song
Only profitable ‘classical’ music today. Why?
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RussiaParis
USA
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ItalyBel CantoNationalismVerismo
FranceOpera Comique
GermanyMusic Drama
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“Beautiful Singing” or “Beautiful Song”
Virtuoso technique requirements
Women Coloratura
Men High tessitura
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Joan Sutherland
Maria Callas
Luciano Pavarotti
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“Il Re d’Italia”Nationalism“Va, Pensiero”
Shakespeare influence
Rigoletto (1851)Quartet
Aida (1900) Leontyne Price
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Inspired by Aida performance
“Real life” situations
Exotic locationsUS WestAsia
Shorten, tighter drama
Melody
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1896Young characters ArtistsParis
romantic
Baz Lehrman production German TV
Act II (Musetta’s “waltz”)(Very strange!)
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Political Controversial
Torture Murder Attempted rape
End of Act II Maria Callas
End of Act III Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna
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Ballet
French Opera (Carmen)
German Opera (Die Walküre and Salome)Disclaimer