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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 ...
As a composer, pianist, teacher, conductor and author, Franz Liszt (born Doborján, Hungary [now Raiding, Austria], October 22, 1811; died Bayreuth, Germany, July 31, 1886), one of the foremost proponents of the Romantic tradition in Western art music, exerted a formative influence on the course of musical expression in the nineteenth century and...
He was born 200 years ago to German-speaking parents in a small village in Sopron county in Hungary that is now part of the Austrian Burgenland. His father, Adam Liszt, was an intendant of the Prince Esterházy estates and a gifted musician who did everything to facilitate the child prodigy’s progress.
