1983 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner

Franz Liszt: Volume 1. The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
Alan Walker
The first volume in Alan Walker’s magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. “You can’t help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker’s accumulated readings of Liszt’s music have to be taken seriously indeed.”–D. Kern Holoman,…