Liszt and the issue of so called Gypsy music
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2013
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Katedra Muzykologii, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PTPN, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The article attempts to shed light on Liszt’s connections with so called Gypsy music, with
particular emphasis on the sources and manifestations of the composer’s interest in the subject. The
paper also shows the eff ects of Liszt’s thought on his academic successors.
Liszt’s fascination with Gypsy music and culture is discussed by outlining his childhood memories as
well as indicating numerous personal contacts he had with renowned Gypsy musicians. The author of
the paper also links Liszt’s enchantment with Gypsy culture with his readiness to identify his travelling
virtuoso status with that of a Gypsy-wanderer. Special attention in the article is put on Liszt’s book Des
Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie (1859). The author of the article claims that Liszt’s cosmopolitanism
may be a key factor while explaining the composer’s predilection to Gypsy culture and music.
While focusing on the reception of Liszt’s views on so called Gypsy music by the posterity Bartók’s
interpretation of Liszt’s ideas is reminded. Discussed are also their repercussions in the second half of
the twentieth century and early twenty fi rst century.
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Franz Liszt, Gypsy music, Hungary, Hungarian music, national music, Béla Bartók
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology 13, 2013, pp. 127-140
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1734-2406