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13 videos • 281 views • by Foriero - We bring LIGHT! Product : http://www.foriero.com/pages/music-ke... Company : http://www.foriero.com/ Piano Sound : www.truepianos.com Music License: cc-by-sa Germany License Performer: Bernd Krueger Source: http://www.piano-midi.de ----------------------- Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 -- July 31 1886) was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary. Born in the village of Raiding (Hungarian: Doborján) in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Habsburg Empire. His maternal language was German. At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing and showed an interest in both sacred and Romani music. After his studies in Vienna and after father's death in 1827, Liszt moved to Paris. He was well known for his numerous love affairs. Significant part of his life (1834 - 1948) spent concerting throughout the Europe. He died in Bayreuth, Germany, on July 31, 1886, officially as a result of pneumonia. Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a benefactor to other composers, including Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin. As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the "Neudeutsche Schule" ("New German School"). Some of his most notable contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form and making radical departures in harmony. Some selected compositions: Hungarian Rhapsodies, Mazeppa (symphonic poem), Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo (symphonic poem), Dante Symphony, 12 Transcendental Étude for piano. ------------------------ The text above is taken from Wikipedia, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.