The Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, theater director, music teacher and writer, was one of the most well-known piano virtuoso and one of the most prolific composers of the 19th Century. His musical work directory have been attributed without literary works, over 700 works. Franz Liszt had composed in many styles and genres. He co-founded the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein and became a pioneer of “programmatic music.” Among the highlights of his career contain the compositions “Hungarian Rhapsody”, “Faust” Symphony and the Piano Concerto “in E flat major”. Franz Liszt was one of the greatest piano virtuosos, whose technique of piano playing to this day, no significant improvements have been added …
Franz Liszt was born on 22 October 1811 in Raiding, Hungary, was born.
Already during his school years Liszt was trained by his father at the piano. With initial successes, he was court composer Antonio Salieri in Italian to the school. In 1823 Liszt went with his parents to Paris, where he has been celebrated as a young piano virtuoso. Twelve years he lived in the French hub, where he found a piano teacher of the glitterati friendship with the composer Hector Berlioz and Louis Frederic Francois Chopin, which he also became acquainted with Victor Hugo and Heinrich Heine.
In 1831 Liszt was an appearance of Niccolò Paganini’s so impressed that he harbored the desire to reach the same “transcendental” level of technology for the piano, which dominated Paganini on the violin. By the example he raised the piano Paganini’s technique to the Titanic, so the dynamics of today’s concert grand was possible. Liszt made in 1833 with the French writer and Countess Marie d’Agoult acquaintance who worked under the pen name Daniel Stern.
The two became a couple and lived together until 1844. From this relationship, they had three children. His daughter Cosima married the German pianist and conductor Hans von Bulow, and with the separation of the composer Richard Wagner. 1839, Liszt went traveling around Europe and visited Lisbon, Moscow, Dublin and Istanbul. During this trip he learned in 1847 the Russian princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, in which he was henceforth a close and influential partner. Under her influence, he devoted himself above all to the composition.
From 1848 Liszt worked as Kapellmeister to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. In 1861 he left town and went to Rome where he studied theology and the next ten years, received minor orders. In the years 1855 and 1856 came at the height of his creative compositions, the “Hungarian Rhapsody”, “Faust” Symphony and the Piano Concerto “in E flat major”. Liszt was knighted in 1859.
From 1871 he regularly visited Weimar and Budapest, where he conducted, taught, composed and supported the work of Richard Wagnerss.
While the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Franz Liszt died on 31 Juli 1886th
In February 2005, in memory of the fantastic musicians held the first International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar.
