Liszt's "Mephus Waltz" Music Aesthetic And Performance Techniques Research

In 1881, Franz Liszt created Mephisto Waltz, which is based on Goethe’ s famous drama Faust and is also his most well-known piano adaption. This music depicts countryside pub. In terms of the musicianship of Mephisto Waltz, it can be said as a masterpiece of virtuosity in piano music. Liszt fully tapped the potential of piano and applied the idea of " symphonization" while creating the piano music, which allows piano great expressiveness that rivals band. In terms of the ideological connotation of Mephisto Waltz, every period of the music is closely related with the plot development of Faust. Through the masterly use of the weird triton, long-span toning and fast rhythm, Liszt portrays most vividly the arrogance and evil of Mephisto, and aptly describes the sweet love between Faust and Margaret using coherent, light tremolo as well as lyrical melody, making poetic fantasy and splendid virtuosity run through the entire music. In the process of adapting the piano music, Liszt excellently inherits the essence of the original literary work and expresses the " spirit of Faust" in a more profound way using vivid musical language and various forms of collectivity, which provides people with strong learning value.This passage takes Mephisto Waltz for example, let us make an analysis on its music and performance. Based on the period of creation of Liszt piano works and humanistic background as well as combined with the creative techniques of Liszt, Analysis of the expression of emotion the analysis of the expression of emotion,difficult performance techniques and performance methods,this passage mainly employs documentary method, comparison method,PuLi analysis, synthetic method and induction. Based on the results of predecessors and personal performance practices, it is a good way to combine performance techniques with music expression organically to have a better understanding of artistic characteristics of L iszt’ s piano works.