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Social Status: Well known as piano prodigy, taught by many prominent musicians such as Czerny. Later correponded with many other famous musicians such as Wagner and Chopin.

Inspirations

Education:

  • Read widely during his teenage years to overcome his lack of a general education
  • Father taught him the piano at age seven.
  • Super high technical skill (piano)

Places he traveled

Religion

Paris

Basel

Catholic

Vienna

La Campanella

Niccolò Paganini. His playing inspired Liszt to become a great virtuoso.

London

Dresden

Leipzig

Influenced by his father, Liszt was a devoutly religious man.

Geneva

The sound of the fountains of the famous garden of Villa d'Este inspired Liszt to write a piano piece called "Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este". The villa and the portrait of the composer can be seen in the same image made by István Orosz.

References

. At the end of December 1830 or at the beginning of January 1831, Liszt left Paris, travelling to Geneva. The voyage led to severe problems in his private life.

Die Hunnenschlacht, as painted by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, which in turn inspired one of Liszt's symphonic poems.

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Family

Place of birth: Doborján, Sopron County, Kingdom of Hungary

Place of death: Bayreuth, Germany

His father, Adam Liszt, he died when Franz was 15. It proved to be an extremely traumatizing experience for him. He lost interest after that but he continued at age 22.

His mother, Anna Liszt

His 'wife', Marie díAgoult

His children, with Marie díAgoult

The woman he later went to live with, Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

Instruments played

Employment and Hobbies

Liszt toured Europe to perform (piano concertos, solos or conducting). He had prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist starting at an early age. His first performance was at age 9.

His hobbies include composing music for piano, organ and full-fledged orchestras. Later in his life, Liszt also enjoyed teaching masterclasses.

Influence

Violin

Piano

His father was his main influence. Since he was a multi-instrumentalist, he was exposed from music at a young age. When his father realised that he was interested in piano, he gave him lessons. He became known to others as a child prodigy. Later on, Antonio Salieri, Mozart's old rival, heard him play and offered to teach him for free.

His health

Organ

Style and Genre Composed in

In July 1881, Franz met with an accident that deteriorated his health leading to his death few years later. He fell down from a flight of stairs at his hotel, which resulted in paralysis of his body for eight weeks. He then became vulnerable to many diseases like asthma, insomnia, dropsy, cataract of the left eye and heart disease.He was very depressed and felt desolated at the thought of dying. He also suffered congestive heart failure. And on July 31, 1886, he passed away due to pneumonia.

Number of pieces Liszt wrote: Over 1000 piano

13 symphonic poems (long orchestral piece related to something non-musical)

He composed in the Romantic Era. He composed mainly of religious music. The very latest period of Liszt's life resulted in a considerable alteration of his musical style - he abandoned his previous virtuoso style with all the flashiness in favor of a bleak, stark compositional approach. During his late years, Liszt turned his back on romanticism more or less altogether and pointed the way forward into the atonality of the 20th century.

Best known compositions:

  • La Campanella
  • Transcendental Etudes
  • Liebestraum (Dream of Love)
  • Hungarian Rhapsodies

Franz Liszt's contemporaries

Frank had 2 notable friends those being Frederic Chopin and Camille Saint-Saëns. Frederic later became his rival due to fierce competitions. Camille Saint-Saëns remained his friend till the end of his life.

Franz Liszt

Liszet was born on October 22, 1811, Raiding, Hungary— he died on July 31, 1886, Bayreuth, Germany. Liszet was born right into the middle of the Romantic Era, which lasted from 1750-1870. Romantic Era was a time period where ideas started to revolt against precise rules, laws, dogmas, and formulas that whee characterized during the Classical era. In this era, world praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and intuition over science.

Franz Liszt

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Languages Spoken: Fluent in German, French and Italian.

Ethnicity: Hungarian (a bit Austrian)

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