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Oct 22, 2023 · Published on. October 22, 2023. By. uDiscover Team. Image: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images. Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and one of the most important composers of...
Jul 14, 2023 · Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a Hungarian composer of Romantic Music. Liszt first gained international fame as a piano virtuoso, an activity in which he was a pioneer, and then as a composer of piano works and symphonic poems, a form he created.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Franz Liszt . Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber, 1846. Franz Liszt, Hungarian Ferenc Liszt, (born Oct. 22, 1811, Raiding, Hung.—died July 31, 1886, Bayreuth, Ger.), Hungarian composer and pianist.
Sep 20, 2023 · One of the most prominent musical figures in 19th-century Europe, Franz Liszt was a prolific composer, conductor, and renowned virtuoso pianist. At the height of his career, he was so admired that an erratic frenzy swept the continent on a level no other performer had even come close to experiencing.
Franz Liszt - Composer, Pianist, Innovator: Liszt was not only the greatest piano virtuoso of his time but also a composer of enormous originality and a principal figure in the Romantic movement. As a composer he radically extended the technique of piano writing, giving the instrument not only brilliance but a full and rich, almost orchestral ...
About Franz Liszt | Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre. Franz Liszt. 1811-1886. „Génie oblige” – this was the motto chosen by Franz Liszt, the only Hungarian musician in the 19th century to be universally recognised as one of the greatest in the world.
Franz Liszt was born in Western Hungary on 22 October 1811. His native village, Doborján (or Raiding in German), belongs today to Austria. Both of his parents — Adam (1776-1827), an employee in charge of sheep farming of Hungary’s richest and most powerful magnate Prince Miklós Esterházy, and Maria Anna Lager (1788-1866), orphan to an ...
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