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Liszt and Lamartine: Poetic and Religious Harmonies

Liszt and Lamartine: Poetic and Religious Harmonies Judith L. Barban The Comparatist, Volume 16, May 1992, pp. 115-122 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1992.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415069/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:12 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMPARATIST Judith L Barban The year 1830 was a banner one for the French poet-poUtician Alphonse de Lamartine. In April he was elected to the prestigious Aca- démie Française on the strength of the unparalleled popularity of his first volume ofpoetry, the Méditationspoétiques. Two months Later he published another coUection, the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, which met with equally unprecedented success, for within a few months five editions had sold out. By contrast, in the early 1830s Franz Liszt found himself some- what in obscurity in Paris, having outgrown his career as a dazzling child prodigy of the piano. One newspaper even ran his obituary. The truth is that Franz, at the age of twenty, was eking out a Uving teaching private piano lessons while nursing the wounds of a thwarted love affair, his first. His efforts at original composition were at best fledgling. He discovered the joys ofUterature and became a voracious reader, no doubt finding consolation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Liszt and Lamartine: Poetic and Religious Harmonies

Barban, Judith L.
The Comparatist , Volume 16 – Oct 3, 2012
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Judith L. Barban The Comparatist, Volume 16, May 1992, pp. 115-122 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1992.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415069/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:12 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMPARATIST Judith L Barban The year 1830 was a banner one for the French poet-poUtician Alphonse de Lamartine. In April he was elected to the prestigious Aca- démie Française on the strength of the unparalleled popularity of his first volume ofpoetry, the Méditationspoétiques. Two months Later he published another coUection, the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, which met with equally unprecedented success, for within a few months five editions had sold out. By contrast, in the early 1830s Franz Liszt found himself some- what in obscurity in Paris, having outgrown his career as a dazzling child prodigy of the piano. One newspaper even ran his obituary. The truth is that Franz, at the age of twenty, was eking out a Uving teaching private piano lessons while nursing the wounds of a thwarted love affair, his first. His efforts at original composition were at best fledgling. He discovered the joys ofUterature and became a voracious reader, no doubt finding consolation

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