ABSTRACT
Many of the books and articles devoted to Franz Liszt (hereinafter also referred to as “the composer”) deal with only one or at most two or three specific issues: his concert tours, for instance, or thematic transformation in the Faust symphony and the B-minor Sonata. A few publications, however, attempt to deal with all of Liszt, or at least with a broad selection of his activities and accomplishments. This chapter is devoted to identifying and describing such “comprehensive” publications; among these are anthologies of studies by one or more scholars, compendia of several kinds, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, handbooks, “readers,” published conference proceedings, and periodicals devoted entirely or primarily to the composer and his era. A small number of “borderline” studies devoted primarily, but not entirely, to Liszt’s compositions are discussed in Chapter 7; so are studies of the composer’s private and professional activities devoted to individual geographical areas-for example, Hungary-or related to individual organizations-for example, Roman Catholicism.
