"Csárdás (Liszt) The three csárdás that Franz Liszt wrote in 1881-2 and 1884 are solo piano pieces based on the Hungarian dance form of the same name. Liszt treats the dance form itself much less freely than he did much earlier with the ""verbunkos"" in the Hungarian Rhapsodies, and the material itself remains more specifically Hungarian than gypsy in thematic material. Their spare lines, angular rhythms and advanced harmonies show these pieces to be direct ancestors of the compositions of Béla Bartók. Because of these attributes, the csárdás are considered by Liszt scholars among the more interesting of the composer's"
"15 of which are associated specifically with Hungary, including the set of seven ""Hungarian Historical Portraits"" completed in 1885. Liszt was often called upon to write music for state occasions, producing three marches and the ""Szózat und Ungarischer Hymnus"", a setting of the Hungarian national anthem noted for its use of unusual scales together with the juxtaposition of chromatically related harmonies. Liszt stopped writing in the Hungarian style after 1873 but resumed doing so in 1881; this was the year he visited his birthplace, Raiding. Liszt discovered late in life that writing Hungarian music allowed him to experiment more freely,"
"pensées poétiques"" (Six poetic thoughts), a title not used for Breitkopf's 1850 publication but for a set published shortly thereafter, in the same year, by the Bureau Central de Musique in Paris. The Consolations, S.171a consist of six solo compositions for the piano. Composed between 1844 and 1849, they are Liszt's first version of the Consolations and were first published in 1992 by G. Henle Verlag. The manuscripts are located at the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar. The third Consolation is an arrangement of a Hungarian folksong that would be later reused by Liszt in his Hungarian Rhapsody No.1,"
"for piano and orchestra. The present work is the only such work that Liszt is known to have produced. However he may, at the end of his life, have helped his student Sophie Menter with her ""Concerto in the Hungarian Style"" (1885), a work which was clearly influenced by the Hungarian Fantasy. A slow introduction by the orchestra is followed by a solo cadenza before proceeding to the main body of the work. The bold, marchlike main theme of the work, as in the version for solo piano, is the Hungarian folk song ""Mohac's Field,"" with a long-short-short-long rhythm. While"
"Glanes de Woronince Glanes de Woronince (""Gleanings from Woronińce"", or ""Harvest at Woronińce""), S. 249, is a suite of three piano pieces by Franz Liszt, written in 1847 at Voronovycia, the Ukrainian estate of Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein in Ukrainian Podolia. Liszt had first met the Princess when he played in Kiev on 14 February of that year. She was recently separated from her husband, and she invited Liszt to spend some time on her estate in Podolia. He stayed for 10 days, then left for a concert tour, promising to return in the autumn. He came back around 18"
"Life of Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811July 31, 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary. Liszt is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811, in the village of Raiding () in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Habsburg Empire (and since 1920 also part of Austria), in Sopron County (). Liszt was the only child of Adam Liszt and Anna Lager. Anna Lager was half Austrian and half Bavarian."
"Mephisto Polka The Mephisto Polka (S. 217) is a piece of program music written in folk-dance style for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1882–83. The work's program is the same as that of the same composer's four ""Mephisto Waltzes"", written respectively in 1859–60, 1880–81, 1882 and 1885 and based on the legend of ""Faust"", not by Goethe but by Nikolaus Lenau (1802–50). The following program note, which Liszt took from Lenau, appears in the printed score of the Mephisto Waltz No. 1: There is a wedding feast in progress in the village inn, with music, dancing, carousing. Mephistopheles and"
"Consolations (Liszt) The Consolations are a set of six solo piano works by Franz Liszt. The compositions take the musical style of Nocturnes with each having its own distinctive style. Each Consolation is composed in either the key of E major or D-flat major. E major is a key regularly used by Liszt for religious themes. There exist two versions of the Consolations. The first (S.171a) was composed by Liszt between 1844 and 1849 and published in 1992 by G. Henle Verlag. The second (S.172) was composed between 1849 and 1850 and published in 1850 by Breitkopf & Härtel, containing"
"the Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. Liszt's father played the piano, violin, cello and guitar. He had been in the service of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy and knew Haydn, Hummel and Beethoven personally. At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing. Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began composing in an elementary manner when he was eight. He appeared in concerts at Sopron and Pressburg (Hungarian: Pozsony, present-day Bratislava, Slovakia) in October and November 1820 at age 9. After the concerts, a group of wealthy sponsors offered to finance Franz's musical"
"Hungarian Fantasy (Liszt) The Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies (German: ""Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien"", Hungarian: ""Fantázia magyar népi dallamokkal""), commonly known in short form simply as the Hungarian Fantasy, is Franz Liszt's arrangement for piano and orchestra of his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14, originally for solo piano. The Fantasia was written in 1852 and premiered in Pest on June 1, 1853, with Hans von Bülow as soloist and Ferenc Erkel conducting the orchestra. During Liszt's lifetime, his Hungarian Rhapsodies were among his most popular works. Because of this popularity, he may have been under pressure to produce versions of them"
"which also the original accompaniment has disappeared. As own melody by Liszt, the solitary left hand plays a motive with two triplets, most resembling the opening motive of his ""Tasso"". The key is the Gypsy or Hungarian variant of g-Minor. In this sense it was Liszt's answer that his name was ""Tasso"", with meaning of an artist of outstanding creativity. His true homeland was art. But besides, he was until the grave ""in heart and mind"" Hungarian. Several of Liszt's pupils of the 1880s left behind records from which the pieces played by themselves and their fellow students are known."
"of the same name based on Stewart's novel. Mephisto Waltzes The Mephisto Waltzes are four waltzes composed by Franz Liszt in 1859–62, 1880–81, 1883 and 1885. Nos. 1 and 2 were composed for orchestra, and later arranged for piano, piano duet and two pianos, whereas 3 and 4 were written for piano only. Of the four, the first is the most popular and has been frequently performed in concert and recorded. Associated with the Mephisto Waltzes is the Mephisto Polka, which follows the same program as the other Mephisto works. Mephisto Waltz No. 1 is the best-known of the series"
"and film. Two different parts were also used, as theme music for the British television series ""The Adventures of William Tell"", the fourth part (popularly identified in the US with ""The Lone Ranger"") in the UK, and the third part, rearranged as a stirring march, in the US. Franz Liszt prepared a piano transcription of the overture in 1838 (S.552) which became a staple of his concert repertoire. There are also transcriptions by other composers, including versions by Louis Gottschalk for two and four pianos and a duet for piano and violin. The overture is scored for: a piccolo, a"
"a funeral march based on this second theme. Here, Liszt clearly wished to symbolize both the defeat of Lajos Kossuth's revolt in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the hope that one day Hungary would be liberated by its own people. The work ends by referring back to both themes. Hungaria (Liszt) Franz Liszt wrote his symphonic poem ""Hungaria"" in 1854, basing it partly on the Heroic March in the Hungarian Style for piano which he wrote in 1840. It was premiered under Liszt's baton at the Hungarian National Theater in Budapest on September 8, 1856, where it achieved an"
"a spirit which from no other hand it ever before received. During his years as a travelling virtuoso, Liszt performed an enormous amount of music throughout Europe, but his core repertoire always centered around his own compositions, paraphrases and transcriptions. Of Liszt's German concerts between 1840 and 1845, the five most frequently played pieces were the ""Grand galop chromatique"", Schubert's ""Erlkönig"" (in Liszt's transcription), ""Réminiscences de Don Juan"", ""Réminiscences de Robert le Diable"", and ""Réminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor"". Among the works by other composers were Weber's ""Invitation to the Dance"", Chopin mazurkas, études by composers like Ignaz Moscheles, Chopin"
"Lisiecki. The piece has appeared in a number of films and television series, including: Three Concert Études Three Concert Études (""Trois études de concert""), S.144, are a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845–49 and published in Paris as ""Trois caprices poétiques"" with the three individual titles as they are known today. As the title indicates, they are intended not only for the acquisition of a better technique, but also for concert performance. Liszt was himself a virtuoso pianist; due to having unusually flexible fourth fingers, he was able to easily play many complex patterns generally"
"I do not recall the particular measures in which he did this; but even then I felt that he might do it in a different place each time he played the piece."" S.172, 2nd Version Consolations (Liszt) The Consolations are a set of six solo piano works by Franz Liszt. The compositions take the musical style of Nocturnes with each having its own distinctive style. Each Consolation is composed in either the key of E major or D-flat major. E major is a key regularly used by Liszt for religious themes. There exist two versions of the Consolations. The first"
"Symphonic poems (Liszt) The symphonic poems of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt are a series of 13 orchestral works, numbered S.95–107. The first 12 were composed between 1848 and 1858 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, ""Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe"" (""From the Cradle to the Grave""), followed in 1882. These works helped establish the genre of orchestral program music—compositions written to illustrate an extra-musical plan derived from a play, poem, painting or work of nature. They inspired the symphonic poems of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Richard Strauss and others. Liszt's intent, according to musicologist Hugh MacDonald,"
"Mephisto Waltzes The Mephisto Waltzes are four waltzes composed by Franz Liszt in 1859–62, 1880–81, 1883 and 1885. Nos. 1 and 2 were composed for orchestra, and later arranged for piano, piano duet and two pianos, whereas 3 and 4 were written for piano only. Of the four, the first is the most popular and has been frequently performed in concert and recorded. Associated with the Mephisto Waltzes is the Mephisto Polka, which follows the same program as the other Mephisto works. Mephisto Waltz No. 1 is the best-known of the series and, together with No. 3, the most praised"
"Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (; , in modern usage ""Liszt Ferenc"" ; 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era. Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. As a composer, Liszt was"
"by Karl Müller Berghaus, also exists. The ""Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"" is well-known due to its frequent use in animated cartoons. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, and is by far the most famous of the set. In both the original piano solo form and in the orchestrated version this composition has enjoyed widespread use in animated cartoons. Its themes have also served as the basis of several popular songs. The Hungarian-born composer and pianist Franz Liszt was strongly influenced"
"de Woronince"". The suite has had few recordings. They include those by Robert Black, France Clidat and Leslie Howard. The middle number was recorded by Conrad Ansorge. Glanes de Woronince Glanes de Woronince (""Gleanings from Woronińce"", or ""Harvest at Woronińce""), S. 249, is a suite of three piano pieces by Franz Liszt, written in 1847 at Voronovycia, the Ukrainian estate of Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein in Ukrainian Podolia. Liszt had first met the Princess when he played in Kiev on 14 February of that year. She was recently separated from her husband, and she invited Liszt to spend some time"
"natural above middle C sounding, then dying out. Mephisto Polka The Mephisto Polka (S. 217) is a piece of program music written in folk-dance style for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1882–83. The work's program is the same as that of the same composer's four ""Mephisto Waltzes"", written respectively in 1859–60, 1880–81, 1882 and 1885 and based on the legend of ""Faust"", not by Goethe but by Nikolaus Lenau (1802–50). The following program note, which Liszt took from Lenau, appears in the printed score of the Mephisto Waltz No. 1: There is a wedding feast in progress in the"
"Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt) Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version is dated 1849. The concerto consists of four movements and lasts approximately 20 minutes. It premiered in Weimar on February 17, 1855, with Liszt at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. The main themes of Liszt's first piano concerto are written in a sketchbook dated 1830, when Liszt was nineteen years old. He seems to have completed the work in 1849, yet made further adjustments in 1853. It was"
"Two Concert Études (Liszt) Two Concert Études (""Zwei Konzertetüden""), S.145, is a set of two piano works composed in Rome around 1862-63 by Franz Liszt and dedicated to Dionys Pruckner, but intended for Sigmund Lebert and Ludwig Stark’s ""Klavierschule."" It consists of two parts: ""Waldesrauschen"" (""Forest Murmurs"") and ""Gnomenreigen"" (""Dance of the Gnomes""). Waldesrauschen (""Forest Murmurs"") in D-flat major is the first of the two pieces in this set. It is known for its beauty and imitation of wind in the forest. The second piece is Gnomenreigen (""Dance of the Gnomes"") in F-sharp minor. It is known for its technical"
"one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (""Neudeutsche Schule""). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated many 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable musical 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. Franz Liszt was born to Anna Liszt (née Maria Anna Lager) and Adam Liszt on 22 October 1811, in the village of Doborján (German: Raiding) in Sopron County, in"
"first performed at Weimar in 1855, with the composer at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. Liszt made yet more changes before publication in 1856. Béla Bartók described it as ""the first perfect realisation of cyclic sonata form, with common themes being treated on the variation principle"". The concerto consists of four relatively short movements: This concerto is scored for a relatively small Romantic orchestra and calls for the following instruments: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt) Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the"
"Bonn with a dedication to Muzio Clementi. This piece, according to the diary of Adam Liszt, father of Franz Liszt, was the piano piece being played by Adam which ""completely absorbed"" Franz in his ""sixth year""; following this he incessantly begged to be taught the piano. This work follows the traditional three-movement structure: The first movement bears a strong resemblance to the music of period composers such as J. N. Hummel, John Field, or Friedrich Kalkbrenner. The second theme is in A-flat major, rather than the expected E major. The second movement, in A major, anticipates the stylistic idiom of"
"Three Concert Études Three Concert Études (""Trois études de concert""), S.144, are a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845–49 and published in Paris as ""Trois caprices poétiques"" with the three individual titles as they are known today. As the title indicates, they are intended not only for the acquisition of a better technique, but also for concert performance. Liszt was himself a virtuoso pianist; due to having unusually flexible fourth fingers, he was able to easily play many complex patterns generally considered difficult. The Italian subtitles now associated with the études—""Il lamento"" (""The Lament""), ""La"
"expression. These elements would eventually play a significant role in Liszt's compositions. Although this prolific composer's works are highly varied in style, a relatively large part of his output is nationalistic in character, the ""Hungarian Rhapsodies"" being an ideal example. Composed in 1847 and dedicated to Count László Teleki, ""Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"" was first published as a piano solo in 1851 by Senff and Ricordi. Its immediate success and popularity on the concert stage soon led to an orchestrated version, arranged by the composer in collaboration with Franz Doppler, and published by Schuberth. In addition to the orchestral version,"
"""Hans Christian Andersen"". Two Concert Études (Liszt) Two Concert Études (""Zwei Konzertetüden""), S.145, is a set of two piano works composed in Rome around 1862-63 by Franz Liszt and dedicated to Dionys Pruckner, but intended for Sigmund Lebert and Ludwig Stark’s ""Klavierschule."" It consists of two parts: ""Waldesrauschen"" (""Forest Murmurs"") and ""Gnomenreigen"" (""Dance of the Gnomes""). Waldesrauschen (""Forest Murmurs"") in D-flat major is the first of the two pieces in this set. It is known for its beauty and imitation of wind in the forest. The second piece is Gnomenreigen (""Dance of the Gnomes"") in F-sharp minor. It is known"
"in Donji Miholjac. After becoming a teacher, Kuhač went to study music in Pest, Hungary. Later, he went to Vienna, Leipzig and Weimar where Franz Liszt taught him piano playing. While analyzing different kinds of traditional music and discussing with his teachers about the relationship of folk music and classical music, he found out the value of folk music. From 1858 to 1871 he taught piano playing and singing in Osijek. He also was the chairman of the Osijek singing society where he conducted works of Slavic composers. In that period, he traveled across Europe, from Bulgaria to Germany and"
"his love for Carolyne, Liszt creates the most beautiful romantic piano composition, ""Liebestraum"" (also known as ""Dream of Love"") dedicated to her, and the piece becomes a classic hit. But the church does not allow Liszt to marry Carolyne, because she could not terminate her first marriage. The unmarried couple moves to the city of Weimar, where Liszt becomes the music director for the royal orchestra. This becomes the most productive and happy period in Liszt's life. The brilliant pianist and composer Franz Liszt becomes a superstar. He tours many countries and makes people happy with his music, albeit his"