MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Franz Liszt, Atonality
17 Jan 2016
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Composed between 1857 and 1864, tristan is wagner"s retelling of the famous doomed love story of tristan and isolde. It was also his first opera using his new schopenhauerian philosophy of music. Many see tristan as the beginning of the complete breakdown of traditional tonality and the move towards the 20th century. His flamboyant character makes him seem more like a rock star than a. Wrote music for piano, orchestral music (especially symphonic poems), Followed wagner in his radical experiments with tonality, which he is considered to have been one of the history"s greatest and most technically advanced pianists. Influential performer, teacher and conductor song cycles and transcribed many opera settings for piano brought him to the edge of tonality and sometimes, in his late music, atonality. Composed in 1853, it is a huge work that consists of 4 movements with no pauses between them. There are five themes that are part of a massive architecture.
