Dana Gooley is Assistant Professor of Music at the Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. He has presented numerous papers on virtuosity and on issues of gender and music, and has published in the journals 19th Century Music and the Journal of the American Liszt Society. Dana Gooley is also an accomplished pianist who plays in jazz clubs and concerts halls around the world.
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Introduction: A virtuoso in context
1. Liszt, Thalberg, and the Parisian publics
2. Warhorses: virtuosity, violence, and the cult of Napoleon
3. The cosmopolitan as nationalist
4. Liszt and the German nation, 1840-43
5. Anatomy of 'Lisztomania': the Berlin episode
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