Book contents
- Liszt in Context
- Composers in Context
- Liszt in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I People and Places
- Part II Society, Thought and Culture
- Part III Performance and Composition
- Part IV Reception and Legacy
- Chapter 27 Pupils
- Chapter 28 Critics
- Chapter 29 Lateness in Context
- Chapter 30 Liszt and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 31 Life-Writing
- Chapter 32 Iconography
- Chapter 33 Liszt in Film
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 30 - Liszt and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
from Part IV - Reception and Legacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2021
- Liszt in Context
- Composers in Context
- Liszt in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I People and Places
- Part II Society, Thought and Culture
- Part III Performance and Composition
- Part IV Reception and Legacy
- Chapter 27 Pupils
- Chapter 28 Critics
- Chapter 29 Lateness in Context
- Chapter 30 Liszt and the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Chapter 31 Life-Writing
- Chapter 32 Iconography
- Chapter 33 Liszt in Film
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Ma seule ambition de musicien était et serait de lancer mon javelot dans les espaces indéfinis de l’avenir – comme nous disions autrefois dans le journal de Brendel. Pourvu que ce javelot soit de bonne trempe et ne retombe pas à terre – le reste ne m’importe nullement!
My only ambition as a musician was and will be to throw my javelin into the indefinite spaces of the future – as we once said in Brendel’s journal. Provided that this javelin is of good temper and does not fall to the ground – the rest does not matter to me!
Letter to Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, 9 February 1874, in La Mara, ed., Franz Liszt’s Briefe, vol. 7.- Type
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- Liszt in Context , pp. 282 - 289Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021