A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Introduction: Virtuosity and Liszt - Robert Doran
Part One: Liszt, Virtuosity, and Performance
Après une lecture de Czerny?: Liszt's Creative Virtuosity - Kenneth Hamilton
Transforming Virtuosity: Liszt and Nineteenth-Century Pianos - Olivia Sham
Spirit and Mechanism: Liszt's Early Piano Technique and Teaching - Nicolas Dufetel
Paths through the Lisztian Ossia - Jonathan Kregor
Brahms "versus" Liszt: The Internalization of Virtuosity - David Keep
Part Two: Lisztian Virtuosity: Theoretical Approaches
The Practice of Pianism: Virtuosity and Oral History - Jim Samson
Liszt's Symbiosis: The Question of Virtuosity and the Concerto Arrangement of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy - Jonathan Dunsby
From the Brilliant Style to the Bravura Style: Reconceptualizing Lisztian Virtuosity - Robert Doran
Part Three: Virtuosity and Anti-Virtuosity in "Late Liszt"
Harmony, Gesture, and Virtuosity in Liszt's Revisions: Shaping the Affective Journeys of the Cypress Pieces from Années de pèlerinage III - Dolores Pesce
Anti-Virtuosity and Musical Experimentalism: Liszt, Marie Jaëll, Debussy, and Others - Ralph P. Locke
Virtuosity in Liszt's Late Piano Works - Shay Loya