Bücher von Jonathan (University of Cincinnati) Kregor

This accessible introduction provides a comprehensive survey of program music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Exploring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Mahler, Strauss, and others, it sets the ideas and repertoires of program music in context, with numerous illustrations and music examples.

Using a host of interdisciplinary methods and primary source materials, this book provides a comprehensive survey of Liszt's activities as transcriber. Kregor discusses transcriptions of works by Berlioz, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, and others, providing musical, cultural, and historical contexts for this fundamentally important practice of the nineteenth century.