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Liszt's Faust Symphony Guide

Liszt's Faust Symphony challenges the notion that symphonic music and program music are separate genres. The piece sets Faust, a work of literature, to music in a way that blurs the lines between these supposed genres. It blows apart the idea that symphonic works must have "integrity" and not tell an extra-musical narrative, showing how Liszt combined these approaches in his Faust Symphony.

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Liszt's Faust Symphony Guide

Liszt's Faust Symphony challenges the notion that symphonic music and program music are separate genres. The piece sets Faust, a work of literature, to music in a way that blurs the lines between these supposed genres. It blows apart the idea that symphonic works must have "integrity" and not tell an extra-musical narrative, showing how Liszt combined these approaches in his Faust Symphony.

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6/16/2020 Symphony guide: Liszt's Faust Symphony | Music | The Guardian

Symphony guide: Liszt's Faust Symphony


Liszt's Faust Symphony blows the bogus symphonic vs programme music debate
out of the water

Tom Service
Tue 1 Jul 2014 07.00 BST

A notional “symphonic principle” has implicitly underscored much of the discussion of the pieces in this
series thus far. The idea of symphonic “integrity” (another word that needs to be in quotation marks!) is
often contrasted in music-historical writing with its orchestral antipode in the 19th century, “programme
music” - music that sets out to tell an “extra-musical” narrative, such as attempting to describe a work
from literature, or a natural phenomenon, or a painterly image in sound; as if the former were the one
true faith of music history, and the latter were a somehow less “pure” (quotation marks again, sorry)
form of music.

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