Liszt: "I am Hungarian!"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Musicology has frequently been roiled by claims and counter claims about Liszt’s national identity. Professor Alan Walker asserts that the issue should never have been raised. Liszt was Hungarian.
It seems strange today that Franz Liszt’s Hungarian nationality was ever questioned. German scholars said he was German, French scholars said he was French, while others claimed him for Austria. Liszt himself was obliged on more than one occasion to remind his interlocutors: “From the cradle to the grave, I am Magyar in thought and word and deed.”
Alan Walker takes Liszt’s powerful declaration as the starting point of his presentation and goes on to review the composer’s myriad connections to his native land. Among the topics presented in detail are Liszt’s birth in Doborján, his support for the victims of the Danube flood in 1838, his desire to see the Hungarian Uprising of 1848-49 succeed and the country’s independence from Austria secured, and his role in creating a national Academy of Music that today bears his name. Liszt composed a great deal of music that reflects these activities, and it is part of Dr. Walker’s argument that it is best be understood when placed within the historical framework from which it emerged. Among the works discussed are the Hungarian Rhapsodies, Funérailles, the symphonic poem Heroϊde funèbre, and the Hungarian Coronation Mass. The presentation ends with an account of Liszt’s death in Bayreuth and the struggle over possession of his remains.
00:00 Rhapsody no. 2 in C-sharp minor, arranged by Franz Doppler.
07:26 Rakoczy March, Solomon Cutner
16:05 The “Friska” from Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, in C-sharp minor, Marc-Andre Hamelin
19:59 Rhapsody no. 11, Valerie Tryon
23:18 Hungarian Rhapsody no. 8 in F-sharp minor, Vincenzo Maltempo
30:39 Funérailles, Alfred Brendel
33:10 Funérailles Coda, Alfred Brendel
36:42 Héroϊde Funèbre, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
40:54 Kyrie from the “Hungarian Coronation Mass”, Budapest Chorus and Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miklos Forrai
48:22 László Teleki, Jenő Jandó - เพลง
Very interesting, informative and tastefully made video! The 3 volume biography is a treasure not only for musicians, but for all who enjoy peeking into the extraordinary life of a genius like Franz Liszt. Presented by the author himself, it doesn't get any better than this! Congratulations and please keep these videos coming!
Yes, have read Professor Alan Walkers trilogy. Also David Dubal, of Juilliard School of Music, radio interview of Alan Walker in 1986, after his first Book, The Virtuoso Years. Also Alan Walker lecture at the Library of Congress..'In Defense of Arrangement. Both these lectures are Gems, and I recommend checking these out. Rev. W.
Thank you so much Dr. Walker for uploading all of these incredible lectures! I hope you continue to do so. These are by far the best lectures I've ever seen done on Liszt and Chopin. You deserve a million subscribers!
Greetings from Hungary! Thank you very much!
I really appreciate this kinds of videos, thank you for this
Riveting - underscoring the saying, "Truth is stranger (read: remarkably unique) than fiction"; and as always with the too-rare Walker lectures (whether on Liszt or Chopin), deeply-deeply moving.
My multigenerational family had a grand piano - a player piano by Chickering ....and several musical works that could be sounded through it.🎶🎶🎶
So.... the "Hungarian Rhapsody" I grew up listening to... OFTEN!!! Always a Very fulfilling, very thrilling event for this young child!!!
Not that I knew "Hungarian" was an ethnic identity...or that a "Rhapsody" was a musical form! It was just a series of phonetical sounds "hungarianrhapsody'" that, if said, magically, (like abracadabra) enabled one to hear a unique 🌊tidal wave of energetic joy 🌄 that brought giggles🤭🙃☺️.. into a very sad youth.🥀
Thank you, to a talented, inspired, composer
..who certainly found his path to holiness 🙏🏼 🎆
I love your lectures! Thanks for uploading, greetings from Mexico
Absolutely wonderful documentary! Thank you Mr. Walker!
Hello Mr. Walker, I bought the 2 volumes on Liszt in French from Fayard. Wonderful job you have done. Thanks
Excellent lecture, but for one major issue: Walker omitted the fact that Liszt actually was only half-Hungarian in blood. His mother (born Maria Anna Lager) was half-Austrian and half-Bavarian. This fact, then, should put an extra twist to his national identity -- especially with respect to his championship of the Hungarian national cause (in the nation's struggles to acquire independence from the Habsburg empire of Austria).
Absolutely wonderful document. Thank you for all the research and great verbal and visual and sound presentation. I've read the three volume biography at least three times through the years along with the wonderful Chopin book. Look forward to all your research.
Ooh! Cannot wait to watch this one. Thank you for recording another one of your splendid talks. 🎹
Thank you for this and all your wonderful lectures.
When is the next video coming?! Cannot wait!
I love your books and lectures! Very interesting!
Thanks for the video. I have your books too 👏
Fantastic lecture- thank you!
How romantic! It's interesting to hear how hard done-by the Hungarians were by the Austrians. They made up for their oppression by forcing the hungarian language onto the Slovaks who were forbidden from speaking their language and were brutally punished for doing so!!!
The freaking airport is named after Liszt.
He was not Hungarian! He was German-Austrian! He couldn’t even speak Hungarian! His native tongue was German. The little town in which he was born is now part of Austria. His mother was definitely a German-Austrian. His fathers family came from Germany. Liszt was delusional if he really thought he was Hungarian. He didn’t have a drop of Hungarian blood in his veins.
His Etudes is bad. Never play it.
Weak sauce
@@julienmonette27 "Weak sauce"? Surely that is an idiomatic expression.