In the August 23, 2011, edition of the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, in writing about Liszt, draws on the expertise of Cornell University Press author Alan Walker: “In his monumental three-volume Liszt biography and in two supplemental books, Mr. Walker makes a case for Liszt, who died in 1886, as the towering musical figure of the 19th century.” Read the whole article here: For Liszt, Experimentation Was a Form of Greatness.

Walker is the author of Reflections on Liszt, Franz Liszt, Volume I: The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847, Franz Liszt, Volume II: The Weimar Years, 1848–1861, Franz Liszt, Volume III: The Final Years, 1861–1886, and the editor of The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupile Lina Schmalhausen.