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Hungarian Romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was especially prolific, composing more than 700 works. A virtuoso pianist himself, much of his output is dedicated to solo works for the instrument and is particularly technically demanding.
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Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
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Liszt's piano works are usually divided into two classes. On the one hand, there are original works, and on the other hand there are transcriptions, arrangements, paraphrases or fantasies of works by other composers. Examples of the first class are Harmonies poétiques et religieuses of May 1833 and the Piano Sonata B minor. Examples of the second c...
Franz Liszt composed about six dozen original songs with piano accompaniment. In most cases the lyrics were in German or French, but there are also some songs in Italian and in Hungarian. A single song, "Go not, happy day" after Alfred Tennyson, is in English. In several cases, Liszt took lyrics which were also set to music by Schumann. Examples ar...
Liszt, in some of his works, supported the idea of program music. It means that there was a subject of non-musical kind, the "program", which was in a sense connected with a sounding work. Examples are Liszt's Symphonic Poems, his Symphonies after Faust and Dante, his two Legends for piano and many others. This is not to say, Liszt had invented pro...
With some works from the end of the Weimar years a development commenced during which Liszt drifted more and more away from the musical taste of his time. An early example is the melodrama "Der traurige Mönch" ("The sad monk") after a poem by Nikolaus Lenau, composed in the beginning of October 1860. While in the 19th century harmonies were usually...
Bory, Robert: Diverses lettres inédites de Liszt, in: Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft3 (1928).Bory, Robert: Une retraite romantique en Suisse, Liszt et la Comtesse d'Agoult, Lausanne 1930.Burger, Ernst: Franz Liszt, Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten, München 1986.Chiappari, Luciano: Liszt a Firenze, Pisa e Lucca, Pacini, Pisa 1989.Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886) was a major figure in 19 th -century music, an innovator in the way he combined a fierce and unquenchable creative fire with a fully developed connoisseur's appreciation of both the music of contemporary composers and of giant figures from the past. The only child of Adam and Anna Liszt, Franz was ...
This is a list of original works by Franz Liszt, based on the catalogue of Humphrey Searle – The Music of Liszt, 1966; and on the additions by Sharon Winklhofer and Leslie Howard. The catalogue up to S.350 is generally confined to the fully original works; the paraphrases and arrangements are generally covered in numbers S.351–999.
1. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor, S.244/1. 2. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, S.244/2. 3. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 3 in B-Flat Minor, S.244/3. 4. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 4 in E-Flat Major. 5. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 5 in E Minor, S.244/5. 6.
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