A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Introduction: Virtuosity and Liszt - Robert DoranPart One: Liszt, Virtuosity, and PerformanceAprès une lecture de Czerny?: Liszt's Creative Virtuosity - Kenneth HamiltonTransforming Virtuosity: Liszt and Nineteenth-Century Pianos - Olivia ShamSpirit and Mechanism: Liszt's Early Piano Technique and Teaching - Nicolas DufetelPaths through the Lisztian Ossia - Jonathan KregorBrahms "versus" Liszt: The Internalization of Virtuosity - David KeepPart Two: Lisztian Virtuosity: Theoretical ApproachesThe Practice of Pianism: Virtuosity and Oral History - Jim SamsonLiszt's Symbiosis: The Question of Virtuosity and the Concerto Arrangement of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy - Jonathan DunsbyFrom the Brilliant Style to the Bravura Style: Reconceptualizing Lisztian Virtuosity - Robert DoranPart Three: Virtuosity and Anti-Virtuosity in "Late Liszt"Harmony, Gesture, and Virtuosity in Liszt's Revisions: Shaping the Affective Journeys of the Cypress Pieces from Années de pèlerinage III - Dolores PesceAnti-Virtuosity and Musical Experimentalism: Liszt, Marie Jaëll, Debussy, and Others - Ralph P. LockeVirtuosity in Liszt's Late Piano Works - Shay Loya