Joanne Cormac is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include genre, reception and identity in nineteenth-century music, and she is currently working on a project on reception issues in multimedia composer biography. Her work has been published in a number of leading music journals.
Introduction
1. Liszt's activities as Kapellmeister
2. From the lyric to the dramatic: the development of Tasso
3. Prometheus, melodramatic mimesis, and the visual
4. Orpheus, opera and Werktreue
5. Formal innovation and dramatic gesutre in Festklänge
6. Hamlet and melodrama
7. Liszt's Weimar legacy.
