The Function of Verbal Text in the Oratorios of F. Liszt The Legend of St. Elizabeth and Christus

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Viktoria S. Krivezhenko

Abstract

The article views some special features of the librettos of Ferenc Liszt’s oratorios Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth and Christus. Differences between the verbal text as an element of oratorial architectonics on the one hand and as a dialog between the composer and its listeners on the other hand have been considered in details. The author concludes that Liszt created an essentially new kind of an oratorial libretto.

Keywords: Western-European composers-romanticists, Ferenc Liszt’s oeuvre, the 19th-century oratorio

 

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Krivezhenko, V. S. (2012). The Function of Verbal Text in the Oratorios of F. Liszt The Legend of St. Elizabeth and Christus. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 10(1), 236–240. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/437
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Musical Genre and Style