Kent hieatt, translator of the canterbury tales crisp and clear, esolens version avoids two modern temptations. Liszt and programme music as they were originally conceived, the aesthetics of hanslick and liszt were entirely independent of one another. Dantes inferno, which are printed in the score but never heard in perfor mance. Veronika kincses soprano hungarian radio and television female chorus, budapest symphony orchestra, gyorgy lehel. Liszt disperses several themes representative of plot events and places in. Meet my famous friends and danny and the dreamweaver, written under the pseudonym mark poe. Franz liszt 18111886 a symphony to dante s divine comedy. Please, consider this image only as a reference, it will not always be the exact cover used in the edition of the published book. Symphony to dante s divina commedia by franz liszt consists of two movements regarding the first two books of alighieris poem. Its two movements are basically a pair of symphonic poems, each depicting, respectively, scenes from dantes inferno and purgatorio, the first. Liszts dante symphony by rich disilvio, hardcover barnes. Dante alighieri divine comedy, inferno 5 which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech. Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. Bookmark file pdf the divine comedy inferno purgatorio paradiso gothic.
Its an extraordinary piece, full of orchestral effects representing the terrors of dante s inferno, with the clear influence of berlioz and the similarly grotesque sounds from the witches sabbath movement of his symphonie fantastique from thirty years earlier. Symphony to dantes divina commedia by franz liszt consists of two movements. Praise professor esolens translation of dante s inferno is the best one i have seen. Jun 06, 2011 liszts dante symp hony is a great book. The french poet joseph autran recalled that in summer 1845, liszt improvised for him a passionate and magnificent symphony upon dante s divine comedy on the organ of the empty marseille cathedral at midnight, and later invited autran to collaborate with him on a dante oratorio or opera, which the poet failed to. An exercise in calculated drama, piercing poetry and theatrical extremes, it receives trenchant advocacy here, karabits exploiting its chiaroscuro contrasts to muscular and moving effect. The book was published on may 14, 20, ten years after publication of the da vinci code 2003, by doubleday.
Franz liszt dante symphony warner classics apex 2564. Dante symphony which was included in the earliest publication of liszts score. The composer utilises a reverent fugue largely based on the descending melodic motif from the first movement. This epic symphony traverses through dante s vision of hell to arrive at a heavenly finale. The first movement of liszts dante symphony, inferno, opens. The book drew inspiration from the geography of dante s inferno and the theology of c s lewiss the great divorce, which is that salvation and entry into paradise, via selfknowledge and repentance, can be achieved by all. Liszts dante symphony plus a worldpremiere recording from. In 1855 he began the dante symphony based on the inferno and purgatorio sections of dante s poem. The unsung lines of text portray the silence and isolation in hell, in contrast to the redemptive singing enacted in the purgatorio movement. Many people prefer to read offline or to print out text and read from the real printed page.
Zoltan gardonyi 1985, the organ music of liszt pdf, the new. Dante symphony s 109 study score a symphony to dantes divina. Dante s inferno, which are printed in the score but never heard in performance. Liszts dante symphony is a sizzling tale of murder and covert spy rings set amid the turbulent rise of bismarcks prussia, which leads to hitlers infernal third reich. Dante symphony, kunstlerfestzug staatskapelle weimar. It includes the arguments prefixed to the cantos by the rev. Liszt ferencz, in modern usage liszt ferenc 22 october 1811 31 july 1886 was a prolific 19thcentury hungarian. American dante bibliography for 1982 dante society. Rick disilvio paints rich characters who are totally believable and he keeps you guessing as the plot thickens throughout this fictionalhistorical novel. The full title of liszts work is a symphony to dantes divine comedy. Franz liszt dante symphony 1856 oleh bartje bartmans 1 tahun yang lalu 49. During those years europe would experience numerous revolutions and witness two world wars, thus emulating the horrors foretold in dante s inferno and liszt s dante symphony, as hitlers belligerent and toxic nazi war machine slowly turned the world into a hellish cauldron of death and destruction.
Liszt had originally conceived the work in three movements, inferno, purgatory, and paradise. The choice of sources of inspiration for musical composition makes for a fascinating study, especially when a source is one of the great and canonic works of western civilization. The winds of time a nonfictional study of the titans who shaped western civilization. Jun 06, 2011 liszts dante symp hony disilvio, rich on. His evocation of the inferno, the shade of francesca da rimini and her sad remembered love is marked by strokes of genius which, with bewildering frequency, preempt the mature wagner who was, incidentally, the dedicatee of the work. Jun 01, 2020 the dante symphony has only recently begun to achieve the prominence it deserves on disc even though it boasts some of liszt s most sorely underappreciated passages.
Purgatorio, and paradiso from, dante, alighieris, book the divine comedy. Thus, work on the dante symphony roughly coincided with work on liszts other. Hanslick admitted at the outset that he was not a fan of his compositions, least of all his symphonic poems. Franz liszt dante symphony warner classics apex 2564 673012. Utah symphony orchestra, maurice abravanal conductorfor information and analysis of this work visit liszt dantesymphony. Fantasia quasi sonata french for after a reading of dante. In his book on program music, jonathan kregor perceptively links this. Jan 05, 2018 liszt s dante symphony is a work of astonishing imagination.
It completed the book, inferno i got finished before hand. It was number one on the new york times best seller list for hardcover fiction and combined print. The purgatorio is liszt in correspondingly calm and pensive mood as dante passes from the terrifying inferno into the relatively blissful purgatory. Written for the concert dantes inferno, performed on jan 25, 2002 at avery fisher hall at lincoln center. Muti leads concert for dante in rome and releases new book. Jan 08, 2005 his two major works based on dante the socalled dante sonata, completed in 1847, and the dante symphony of 1856 had a considerable impact on the 19thcentury imagination. As in the faust symphony, liszt enjoys the contrast between the infernal and the divine. The coupling of the symphony with the dante sonata is an obvious but adroit choice and it allows barenboims to show off his versatility. The dante sonata is the 7 th piece in liszt s piano works collection. Music in art xxxviii12 20 liszt s and genellis dante symphonie project evangelia mitsopoulou music school of thessaloniki franz liszt originally envisioned his triptych inferno, purgatorio, and paradiso known as eine symphonie zu dantes divina commedia 185556as a tribute to the three principal divisions canticae of dante ali ghieris divina commedia. Liszt had been sketching themes for the work since the early 1840s. Mar 04, 2018 liszt s introduction of a chorus at the end might vaguely recall beethoven. Once again liszt inscribes the score with the corresponding words of the inferno. And his endnotes and other additions provoke answers to almost any question that could arise about the work.
Although liszt apparently agreed his ambitions for the dante symphony were ultimately scaleddown to include only the inferno and purgatorio movements he points toward paradise by concluding the symphony with a serene magnificat for womens chorus. Thou art my master, and my author thou, thou art alone the one from whom i took. Dante alighieris inferno portrays hell as an alienated realm in which the doomed spirits must spend eternity in isolation and regret. Liszt s philosophy supporting his programmatic sym. In his book on program music, jonathan kregor perce.
Analyzes franz liszt s musical adaptation of the commedia in his dante symphony, showing the composers profound understanding of the poem and his skill in matching musical devices to the literary context. Liszt is known to have played some fragments of his dante symphony eine. An extraordinary new verse translation of dante s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator anthony esolen of the great poets, dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into english verse. Nov 17, 20 liszt s dante symphony is a strikingly original and enigmatic tale of murder and covert spy rings amid the turbulent rise of bismarcks prussia, which leads to hitlers infernal third reich. O, of the other poets honour and light, avail me the long study and great love that have impelled me to explore thy volume. Inferno purgatorio magnificat yeardate of composition yd of comp. Dante s inferno dante s inferno the divine comedy of dante alighieri translated by henry wadsworth longfellow volume 1 this is all of longfellows dante translation of inferno minus the illustrations. The choice of sources of inspiration for musical composition makes for a fascinating study, especially when a source is one. Even as an emperor of evil, he is a mere shadow of what an emperor might be. Based, of course, on the divine comedy, the work is in two movements an inferno depicting the torments of hell, and a tender purgatorio in which the soul is prepared for. Hoplit, hanslick and liszt s dante symphony jsmi, 7 201112, p. Eine symphonie zu dantes divina commedia 185556 based on sketches from 1839 and 184748 dedication. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on dante alighieris journey through hell and purgatory, as depicted in the divine comedy. But its barenboim and the berlin philharmonic who really whip up the hellfire in the inferno movement which features an exquisitely vulgar trombone figure.
If triumph in its purest sense is in any way to be associated with paradise, then liszt, in the ending of the dante sonate, gave more than a glimpse the dottedrhythm figure, the descending tritone, essentially the opening of the inferno, indeed are 58kentner, in walker, liszt. Dantes inferno full text books free to read online in. Liszts dante symp hony is an enigmatic tale of murder and covert spy rings amid the turbulent rise of bismarcks prussia, eventually leading to hitlers infernal third reich. The work begins with virgil and dante descending into the inferno.
However, most of hells denizens in the novel either deny their sins or feel they deserve their fate. Sometimes it is not possible to find the cover corresponding to the book whose edition is published. The hungarian composer franz liszt 18111886 responded to this work with his dante symphony 1857 based on the inferno and purgatorio, in which he gave musical form to dante s textual expressions of agony. In all then, the dante symphony is a special piece. The divine comedy inferno purgatorio paradiso gothic fantasy.
Liszts dante symphony plus a worldpremiere recording. Faust symphony, dante symphony solti, lopezcobos composers. Rgfudgugu3ltcghvbnksifmumta5ichmaxn6dcwgrnjhbnop identifier imslp symphony s109 liszt franz. Liszt leaves no stone unturned in his quest to portray the diabolical horrors that. The first movement of liszts dante symphony, inferno, opens with unheard. But the composer was quite prolific in the orchestral genre, turning out thirteen tone poems, various orchestral works like a faust symphony and a dante symphony, and many choralorchestral works, as well as numerous pieces for piano and orchestra and arrangements of solo piano music. Jul 29, 2016 liszts dante symp hony is an historical mysterythriller. But the effect is wholly different from that found in the ode to joy and still, at this point in the genres history at least, the feat is a pretty rare occurrence. Turning to that even lesssubtle opus, the dante symphony, we find jesus lopezcobos inspiring the suisse romande orchestra to a raw ferocity unknown in the days of ernest ansermet. Dante, tchaikovsky, wagner, intertextuality, francesca da rimini the sounds that open tchaikovskys tone poem francesca da riministrains of diminished sonorities, woeful, crying woodwinds, chromatic strings, screaming in agonyecho those heard in liszt s dante symphony and sonata. The dante symphony, completed one year earlier, enjoyed a smoother birth.
Nov 27, 2003 but lizst was known for risktaking, and the dante symphony takes on inferno and purgatory with his postberlioz approach, painting vivid pictures that are as evocative as they are unsettling. When you think of liszt, you think primarily of piano music. Smashwords liszts dante symphony a book by rich disilvio. The first movement, encompassing inferno, is chromatic, tonally ambiguous and creates very dense textures to emulate chaos of hell.
It was premiered in dresden in november 1857, with liszt himself conducting, and was unofficially dedicated to the composers friend and. Instrumentation piano external links wikipedia article. Dante, liszt, inferno, purgatorio, dante symphony, divina commedia. Liszt s orchestral arrangement of schuberts wanderer. Chicago symphony orchestra london symphony orchestra suisse romande orchestra. Franz liszt, daniel barenboim, berlin philharmonic liszt. Dantes inferno full text books free to read online in the. Written for the concert dante s inferno, performed on jan 25, 2002 at avery fisher hall at lincoln center. Related works, see also the album leaf dante symphony progression, s.
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