Gerardo Constantini wrote:

>Stephanie wrote:
>
>>What aspects of the 'Romantic' movement in music are exemplified in Liszt's
>>Sonata for Piano in B minor.
>
>I thing most of the romantic aspects,are exemplified in this superior
>work,but are two romantic elements,wich are not here:
>
>1)Is not a literature influence in it.

Not directly, but i often heard and read, that Faust (by Lenau) has
influenced Liszt creating the b minor sonata.  In "Musik beim Wort
genommen" english title: "Music sounded out" by Alfred Brendel, three
themes of the sonata are compared to Faust, Mephisto and Gretchen...
But he declares such associations as a hypothesis.

So, in the end, you are obviously right, if you say, that the work is
absolute music.

Regards, Norman