Gerard Carter

The University of Sydney · Law School: School of Business Law

This article is a shortened version of the JALS 2017 article "Towards a New Edition of Liszt's Sonata in B minor". It contains all discussions relating to the proposed New Urtext Edition but omits most of the material relating to historical and symbolic issues. The result is to provide pianists, analysts, editors and musicologists with the opportun...

This article is a shortened version of the JALS 2017 article "Towards a New Edition of Liszt's Sonata in B minor". It contains all discussions relating to the proposed New Urtext Edition but omits most of the material relating to historical and symbolic issues. The result is to provide pianists, analysts, editors and musicologists with the opportun...

Towards a New Edition of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor: Sources, Editorial History, Symbolic Issues Tibor Szász (with Gerard Carter and Martin Adler) “New wine into old wineskins”—such is the reception history of Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor. Ever since its publication in 1854 the score has suffered from textual misinterpretations which are reproduc...

PREVIEW: Towards a New Edition of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor: Sources, Editorial History, Symbolic Issues Tibor Szász (with Gerard Carter and Martin Adler) “New wine into old wineskins”—such is the reception history of Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor. Ever since its publication in 1854 the score has suffered from textual misinterpretations which are...

The Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova (1786–1859) was not only Franz Liszt’s patron, but also received musical instruction from him. At least one of her compositions, a song that will hereafter be referred to as the “Maria Pavlovna Lied,” was held dear enough by Liszt that he used its melody as thematic material not only as the main theme of hi...

The Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova (1786–1859) was not only Franz Liszt’s patron, but also received musical instruction from him. At least one of her compositions, a song that will hereafter be referred to as the “Maria Pavlovna Lied,” was held dear enough by Liszt that he used its melody as thematic material not only as the main theme of hi...

"[...] Gerard Carter and Martin Adler’s painstaking examination of a reproducing-piano recording of the Sonata in B minor made by Arthur Friedheim between 1905 and 1907 is perhaps the most scientific and unquestionably the most serious study of any single Liszt performance [...] The very appearance of the Carter-Adler monograph also consolidates t...

Franz Liszt completed his Piano Sonata in B minor at Weimar in 1853. It met with a mixed reception from the musical establishment of the day but is now a part of the repertoire of every leading pianist and may even be the most frequently recorded and performed piano work ever written. It is the outstanding example of the compositional process of th...