Liszt 1869-1886 Weimar-Rome-Pest
This closing chapter of Liszt’s activities lasts seventeen years and constitutes the longest distinct compositional period of his life. When he left Rome in January 1869 at the persuasion of Grand Duke...
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Liszt’s music remain orientated upon the one inflexible fact in a life that contained so many contrary forces, so many attempts and experiments in the art of composition—the fact that Liszt was...
View ArticleLiszt Music – Opera and Sacred Choral Works
Opera 1. Don Sanche, ou Le Chateau d’Amour. Opera en un acte. 1824-5. Sacred Choral Works 2. Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth. Oratorio on words o f Otto Roquette. 1857—62. 3. Christus. Oratorio...
View ArticleLiszt 1811-1823 in the Habsburg
Liszt 1811-1823 in the Habsburg 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...
View ArticleLiszt Music – Secular Choral Works
67. Festkantate zur Enthullung des Beethoven-Denkmals in Bonn (O. L. B. Wolff). SSTTBB soli, chorus and orch. 1845. 68. Zur Sakularfeier Beethovens (2nd Beethoven Cantata) (Adolf Stern and...
View ArticleLiszt Music – Pianoforte Works
Studies 136. Etude en 48 exercises dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs. 1826; only 12 were written. Cf. 137-9. 137. 24 Grandes Etudes. 1837; from 136. Only 12 were written. 138. Mazeppa. c. 1840 (?)...
View ArticleLiszt Music – Organ, Songs and other Vocal Works
Organ 259. Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale: Ad nos, ad salutarem undam. 1850; theme from Meyerbeer’s Le Prophete. Cf. 414. 260. Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH. 1st version, 1885; 2nd version,...
View ArticleLiszt Music – Opera and Sacred Choral Works
Opera 1. Don Sanche, ou Le Chateau d’Amour. Opera en un acte. 1824-5. Sacred Choral Works 2. Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth. Oratorio on words o f Otto Roquette. 1857—62. 3. Christus. Oratorio...
View ArticleLiszt Quotes
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ~ Franz Liszt A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. ~...
View ArticleLiszt Biography
Franz Liszt, one of the genius piano performers of nineteenth century, was a Hungarian composer on modern piano and was also known for his harmonies and innovative style of symphonic poems. He was born...
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