franz liszt

     

Composer profiled in "Song Without End" and "Lisztomania"

Trivia about franz liszt

  • This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth
  • German composer & pianist Hans von Bulow studied piano with this Hungarian composer
  • Composer who wrote the famous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15, "The Rakoczy March", heard here
  • This composer's daughter Cosima married Hans von Bulow in 1857 & Richard Wagner in 1870
  • This Hungarian composed his "Hungarian Fantasia" for piano & orchestra in 1852
  • Upon his death, this Hungarian pianist's manuscripts passed to the Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein
  • This Hungarian became president of the new Hungarian Academy of Music in 1875
  • Chopin disliked the insincerity of this Hungarian pianist-composer 1 year his junior
  • Though a strong Hungarian nationalist, this "Mephisto Waltz" composer barely spoke the language
  • This Hungarian piano virtuoso was scandalously involved with the married Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein
  • A promotional pianist for the piano maker Erard, this Hungarian's compositions included 1857's "A Faust Symphony"
  • The unpublished manuscript of the 20th of his "Hungarian Rhapsodies" has been in a museum in Weimar, Germany
  • Music fans wax rhapsodic about this Hungarian's "Transcendental Etudes"
  • In the 1840s this composer's piano playing was the toast of Europe, taking him to more than 20 countries
  • Romantics swoon over the rose once kissed by this composer of the "Hungarian Rhapsodies"
  • Frederick Beale was the first to use "recital" to mean a piano concert referring to one by this Hungarian
  • After visiting a gypsy encampment, he composed a series of rhapsodies including the one heard here
  • This Hungarian piano virtuoso was scandalously involved with the married princess Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein

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