Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded. Liszt achieved success as a concert pianist from an early age, and received lessons from the esteemed musicians Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri. He gained further renown for his performances during tours of Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, developing a reputation for technical brilliance as well as physical attractiveness. In a phenomenon dubbed "Lisztomania", he rose to a degree of stardom and popularity among the public not experienced by the virtuosos who preceded him. During this period and into his later life, Liszt was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner, among others. Liszt coined the terms "transcription" and "paraphrase", and would perform arrangements of his contemporaries' music to popularise it. Alongside Wagner, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School, a progressive group of composers involved in the "War of the Romantics" who developed ideas of programmatic music and harmonic experimentation. Liszt taught piano performance to hundreds of students throughout his life, many of whom went on to become notable performers. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work that influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century ideas and trends. Among Liszt's musical contributions were the concept of the symphonic poem, innovations in thematic transformation and Impressionism in music, and the invention of the masterclass as a method of teaching performance. In a radical departure from his earlier compositional styles, many of Liszt's later works also feature experiments in atonality, foreshadowing developments in 20th-century classical music. Today he is best known for his original piano works, such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies, Années de pèlerinage, Transcendental Études, "La campanella", and the Piano Sonata in B minor.

Works

  • Adelaide
    Ferruccio Busoni
  • At The Spring
    Alfred Cortot
  • Ballade No.1
    Erwin Nyiregyhazi
  • Ballade No.2
    Arthur Friedheim
  • Benediction
    Alexander Siloti
  • Bird Sermon
    Arthur Friedheim
  • Cantique d'Amour
    Utz
  • Canzonetta
    Herbert Fryer
  • Concerto No.1
    Marguerite Volavy
  • Concerto Pathetique
    Lerner-Shavitz
  • Consolation No.3
    Ernest Hutcheson
  • Cujus Animam
    Frederic Lamond
  • Dance of the Gnomes
    Alexander Brailowsky
  • Dedication
    Frank Sheridan
  • Erlking
    Paderewski, Ignace
  • Etude 'Un Sospiro'
    Mischa Levitzki
  • Etude No.1
    Arthur Friedheim
  • Etude No.2
    Mieczyslaw Munz
  • Etude No.4
    Magdeleine Brard
  • Etude No.5
    Ferruccio Busoni
  • Evening Harmonies
    Arthur Friedheim
  • Feux Follets
    Arthur Friedheim
  • Fountains Villa d'Este
    Carl Friedberg
  • Gondoliera
    Josef Lhevinne
  • Hark the Lark
    Paderewski, Ignace
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 1
    Vera Timanoff
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 10
    Alfred Reisenauer
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 11
    Raoul Pugno
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 12
    Bernhard Stavenhagen
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 14
    Friedman, Ignaz
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 15
    Rudolph Ganz
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 2
    Alfred Cortot
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 6
    Mischa Levitzki
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 8
    Ethel Leginska
  • Hungarian Rhapsody 9
    Arthur Friedheim
  • La Campanella
    Ferruccio Busoni
  • Leggierezza
    Wilhelm Backhaus
  • Les Preludes
    Richard Singer
  • Liebestraum No.1
    Ornstein, Leo
  • Liebestraum No.2
    Milton Suskind
  • Liebestraum No.3
    Ornstein, Leo
  • Longing for Home
    Maria Carreras
  • Lorelie
    Josef Lhevinne
  • Maidens Wish
    Paderewski, Ignace
  • Margaret Spinning
    Alexander Borovsky
  • Mazeppa
    Erwin Nyiregyhazi
  • My Joys
    Godowsky, Leopold
  • Nightingale
    Friedman, Ignaz
  • On Lake Wallenstadt
    Arthur Friedheim
  • On Wings of Song
    Josef Lhevinne
  • Petrach Sonnet 104
    Carolyne Cone Baldwin
  • Petrach Sonnet 47
    Teresa Carreno
  • Ricordanza
    Xaver Scharwenka
  • Serenade
    Harold Bauer
  • Sonata B minor
    Eugen d'Albert
  • St Francis on Waves
    Bernhard Stavenhagen
  • Thou Art Repose
    Wilhelm Backhaus
  • Transcendental Etude No.10
    Phillip Gordon