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The collection of essays is a sort of appendix to Alan Walker's three-volume biography of Liszt. That was not a study of the music, though it commented selectively on the music as part of the... — BBC Music Magazine More…

A macabre little classic." -- Alex Ross — The New Yorker More…

Hilmes offers a riveting read, a vibrant story full of cannily etched detail. In the end you feel you have been visiting the characters at home, observing with forensic exactitude all their foibles,... — Sunday Times More…

Janita R. Hall-Swadley's central goal with her new edition of The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt is to communicate the essential meaning of these essays as they were understood by late nineteenth-century... — Music and Letters More…