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I have no problems with the revision. I actually managed to get to my own library yesterday - everywhere I looked there was a vagueness (and I don't just mean the librarians) about these early Liszt pieces. I was going to come on here this morning and say that it seems to hinge on the young Franz's ''intentions''. Did he mean them ''solely'' as practice or teaching pieces (didactic is too arcane a word at this hour of the morning) or did he also have public performance in mind. He may only have been in his mid-teens but Liszt was Liszt and was probably already the showman. That's all. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 17:56, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
I have no problems with the revision. I actually managed to get to my own library yesterday - everywhere I looked there was a vagueness (and I don't just mean the librarians) about these early Liszt pieces. I was going to come on here this morning and say that it seems to hinge on the young Franz's ''intentions''. Did he mean them ''solely'' as practice or teaching pieces (didactic is too arcane a word at this hour of the morning) or did he also have public performance in mind. He may only have been in his mid-teens but Liszt was Liszt and was probably already the showman. That's all. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 17:56, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
:I read a little biography as well while I was at it. At the time when the etudes were published, he was teaching piano students in Paris all day to support himself and his mother after Adam Liszt died. His real period of concert activity came about 8-10 years later. It's a fair point that he was always Liszt, but it's also true that before he was the super virtuoso, he led a monk-like existence, practicing 12 hours a day.
:All this, combined with the fact that Liszt's later etudes were demonstratively titled "Grand Etudes de concert...", seem to indicate that his thinking had changed in the meantime. [[User:JDWpianist|JDWpianist]] 19:55, 9 April 2009 (EDT)