FRANZ LISZT: UNIVERSAL PERSON
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/facs-2024-2-4Keywords:
Franz Liszt, universal person, actively-structural method, creative biography, type of activity, universalmaster, universal-creator.Abstract
The abstract. The article reviews the universal creative person of F. Liszt. The goal of this paper is define the specific of Liszt’s universal person. The author used the actively-structural method of musicological research. The main works about F. Liszt are analyzed from this point of view. The main facts of his creative biography are considered. The article reveals reflections of F. Lisztʼs achievements in each sphere of his creativity. In particular, author compared Lisztʼs achievements as pianist, composer, conductor, musical leader, teacher, music publicist, etc. The priority of some type Liszt’s activity on different stages his evolution is considered. As a result, the structure of Lisztʼs universal person is modeled by author. The equivalence of composition and performance is reasoned. Both these kinds of Liszt’s creativity are leading during his entire creative path. Also musicologist noted the fact of interactions between different Liszt’s activities. The main result of the study says that Liszt’s universal person belongs to transitional type. It contains features from two person’s models: universal-master and universal-creator. The novelty of this study includes many aspects. Original author’s method of research was used in this paper. It method was given a possibility to look on good known facts of Liszt’s biography from a new point. Numerous foreign sources were involved in Ukrainian musicology with this paper by author. This approach was expanded possibilities for understanding the value of Liszt's achievements. New interpretation on Liszt’s creative biography was gotten in this research. This was given more widely and more deeply to learn about Franz Liszt’s creativity. An awareness and appreciate of Liszt’s activity as a universal person was made. This was helped to expand and enrich knowledge in this area of musicology. The comparing of leading and accessorial kinds of Liszt’s activity was given very detail and correctly. This was helped to understand who was Franz Liszt and what was he made for musical culture.
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