Dante as source of inspiration for Franz Liszt: "Dante Symphony" and its pianistic transcriptions
Abstract
The subject of this thesis is Franz Liszt’s Dante Symphony –a not very popular composition of the composer– inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. This poem has been the most famous of all centuries, capturing the fantasy of many artists from the Medieval era until today. Paintings, sculptures, music compositions, literary critics, translations in all languages, novels, cinema films, cartoons have been inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.The thesis includes the complete harmonic and motivic analysis of the Dante Symphony as well as the comparative study of its six pianistic transcriptions by Liszt for two pianos, Theophil Forchhammer for solo piano, Arthur Hahn for piano – four hands, Αugust Stradal for solo piano, Carl Tausig for solo piano and János Végh for two pianos – eight hands, works that are revealed and presented for the first time.Liszt’s “avant-garde” ideas for the presentation of his orchestral work along with the diorama of G.B. Genelli’s paintings were never realized by him. F ...
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