«L' homme de génie, c’est la nature entière qui devient parole»
Il romanticismo letterario nell’esperienza parigina di Franz Liszt
Keywords:
Liszt, Alfred de Vigny, E.T.A. Hoffmann, literary Romanticism, ParisAbstract
Franz Liszt arrived in Paris during the intense years of European Romanticism, when he was only sixteen. What influence did this contact have on the construction of his identity? The connection with this cultural milieu leaves a trace on his theoretical production: for one thing, we find a deep social reflection already posed by Alfred de Vigny, that Liszt very precisely takes up in the Lettres d’un bachelier ès-musique. But Franz Liszt is also associated by his contemporaries with the enthusiasm of German Romanticism: he has been compared, for example, to E.T.A. Hoffmann, becoming a caricature and double, and points of contact with the life of the main character of Kreisleriana have often been found. Liszt thus becomes both a mediator and central figure of the Romantic movement.
