Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (1811-86) was a Hungarian composer and pianist of the Romantic era.
In his time he was widely regarded as the most accomplished piano player in Europe.
He wrote all sorts of music, including symphonic program music (such as Faust and Dante), piano concertos, choral works and a huge number of works for the solo piano. He wrote about 20 "Hungarian Rhapsodies".
Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss were sponsored by Liszt. Wagner ended up marrying Liszt's daughter, Cosima.
In 1865 Liszt took on minor religious vows and was thenceforth dubbed Abbe Liszt.
Liszt's music is highly romantic and he brought in innovations in harmony in his compositions.
Hungarian Rhapsody (played by Alice Cooper?)
Composed by Franz List
Maksim - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Liszt)
For scores and more please visit http://www.maksimmrvica.com Maksim Mrvica playing the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody live at the Roundhouse London. Excellent performance.
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I Love Liszt!
"When he sits at the piano and having repeatedly pushed his hair back over his brow, begins to improvise, then he often rages all too madly upon the ivory keys and lets loose a deluge of heaven-storming ideas, with here and there a few sweet flowers to shed fragrance upon the whole. One feels both blessedness and anxiety, but rather more anxiety."
-- Heinrich Heine, quoted in Walter Beckett, Liszt (1963)
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847, Vol. 1 (Franz Liszt)
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847, Vol. 1 (Franz Liszt)
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You'll treasure all three volumes
Volume I of this massive 3-volume biography of the great Liszt is, as the other two volumes, well written, informative, and, well, fun to read. Liszt lead an exciting life, lived in exciting times, and wrote exciting music. Alan Walker is more than up to the job. His writing style moves along like an octave run up the piano. Remember, these books are about his life; if you want in-depth study of the music, you'll have to look elsewhere. (As I'm in the process of doing now.) I'm the proud owner of all three volumes in hardcover and I refer to them constantly. Don't know what else to say other than "enjoy!" And buy as much Liszt music as you can; you won't regret it.
Liszt Music on CD
The Best Of Liszt
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Liszt: Favourite Piano Works
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Liszt: 10 Hungarian Rhapsodies
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Enrico Pace plays Liszt's Totentanz (part 1 of 2)
Enrico Pace plays Liszt - Totentanz (part 1 of 2)
This is the first part of Enrico Pace playing Liszt's Totentanz at the Liszt competition in the Netherlands in 1989
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Program Notes on Famous Liszt Works
- The Faust Symphony (Liszt)
- The "Faust" Symphony, while it is a prominent illustration of program music, is unique in this respect, that it is not a program of scenes or situations, but a series of delineations of character. Liszt himself styles the three movements of the symphony "Charakterbilder" ("Character-pictures"), and has named them for the three leading dramatis personae in Goethe's poem -- Faust, Gretchen, and Mephistopheles. He gives us no further program...
CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO READ FULL NOTES ON THIS WORK - A Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia (Liszt)
- Liszt's symphony to the "Divina Commedia" of Dante is in two parts, "Inferno" and "Purgatorio";... The "Inferno" opens at once with a characteristic phrase for the bass instruments with a crashing accompaniment, announcing in recitative the inscription over the door of hell: "Per mi si va nella città dolente" ("Through me pass on to horror's dwelling place"), whereupon the trombones and horns sound out the well-known warning, "Lasciate ogni speranza" ("All ye who enter here, leave hope behind")...
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I Hate Liszt!
"A smasher of pianos."
-- Clara Schumann on Liszt, quoted in Alan Walker, Robert Schumann: the Man and his Music (1972)
Franz Liszt (article)
For example, regarding the 1840s Saffle wrote, "no one disputed seriously that he Liszt was the greatest living pianist, probably the greatest pianist of all time."
Since Saffle gave no sources, his statement can only be taken as his own point of view. Saffle's statement as such is wrong since many contemporaries preferred S. Thalberg as pianist.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the "Neudeutsche Schule" ("New German School"). He left behind a huge oeuvre, including works from nearly all musical genres.
Source: Wapedia
Portrait of Franz Liszt on a postage stamp from Cuba
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Posted October 04, 2007
