Part I. People and places. Family background / Adrienne Kaczmarczyk ; Liszt's teachers / Paul Bertagnolli ; Paris / Bryan A. Whitelaw ; Italy / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Liszt and Wagner / David Trippett ; The New German School / James Deaville ; Weimar / Joanne Cormac ; Liszt and his contemporaries / Anne Macgregor ; Liszt in Hungary / Lynn M. Hooker
Part II. Society, thought and culture. The "war" of the Romantics / David Larkin ; Visual art and artists / Andrew Haringer ; Literature and literary heroes / Jonathan Kregor ; Liszt, women and salon culture / Ulrike Müller ; Liszt as a writer / Dorothea Redepenning ; Patronage : the court / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Liszt and the networks of revolution / Bruno Moysan and Malou Heine ; Liszt's national identity : what else is new? / Shay Loya ; Liszt and religion / Eftychia Papanikolaou
Part III. Performance and composition. Pianos and piano builders / Andrew haringer ; Liszt on the road : The rise of the modern virtuoso pianist / Christopher H. Gibbs ; Virtuosity / Jonathan Kregor ; Improvisation / Adrienne Kaczmarczyk ; Transcription / Jonathan Kregor ; Liszt and conductor / Donna M. Di Grazia ; Publishers / Adrienne Kaczmarczyk ; Genre / Joanne Cormac
Part IV. Reception and legacy. Pupils : Liszt as teacher / Jonathan Kregor ; Critics / James Deaville ; Lateness in context / Shay Loya ; Liszt and the twentieth and twenty-first centuresi / Dorothea Redepenning ; Life-writing / Joanne Cormac ; Iconography / Alan Davison ; Liszt in film / Joanne Cormac.
