Volume 22, Number 1 · February 6, 1975
Lisztomania
By Robert Craft
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero
by Eleanor Perényi
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 466 pp., $15.00
Liszt
by Claude Rostand, translated by John Victor
Grossman, 189 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The Man Liszt: A Study of the Tragi-Comedy of a Soul Divided Against Itself
by Ernest Newman
Vienna House, 306 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero can be enjoyed as a historical novel, if the reader is able to overlook the book's commentaries on the music. The characters are as large, and some of them are as loathsome, as any in Balzac, and the biography has none of the faults of the semifictional genre, the concocted scenes and embellishments of actual ones.
Review, 3698 words
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