The Cambridge Companion to Liszt

Until about the middle of the last century Liszt was known principally for his piano music, most of it of formidable difficulty, but in the past 50 years or so there has been a much greater interest in his vocal and orchestral music. Weimar and Budapest, the two main towns where Liszt spent much of the latter part of his life, were in that part of Eastern Europe that took his revolutionary and nationalist ideas seriously, and research centres published many of his compositions that had not been generally available before. Nowadays, his music is much more frequently performed, and...