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In Reply to: Re: Why wait? Judge for yourself!... posted by Robert C. Lang on January 5, 2007 at 15:45:36:
was one of the first truly "Modern" composers. Berlioz was one of the leaders -- maybe even THE leader -- who completely left behind many of the formal, structural elements of the "Classical Period" exemplified by Mozart, Haydn etc. Liszt, with his "tone poem" approach took it even further. His orchestral music is Romantic, in that it characterizes "ideas as music" but, in this regard, he is operating in the exact same place as Berlioz, Wagner and some Schumann. But, to me anyway, Liszt is even more "abstract". HIS music can and should be listened to, at least in part, as "pure sound" -- he is almost "painting with sound" in a poetic manner that never really took hold until something like 125-150 years later, when almost "no structure at all" became acceptable (for some, including me) in the works of composers like Cage or Norgard. But, compared to these modern sound architects, Liszt looks old-fashioned...clearly Romantic. Somewhat differently, in listening to the choral finale to Purgatorio (2nd half of the Dante Symphony), I can almost tangibly feel either the debt or the roots of the British choral composers such as Vaughan Williams. Romantic, Late Romantic, Modernist...all of it is there in Liszt's orchestral works.
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