Ferenc Liszt’s life and his major works

Life:• Ferenc Liszt was born in 1811.

October 22 Doborján.One of the largest piano artists of times and one of the most considerable romantic composers of the 19. century. He went to Vienna with his father where he studied at Carl Czernyn and Antonio Salierin in 1822. He was best at hands regarding his musical development at his masters.

• He was not even years old when the talented boy stood resolutely in front of the audience on concerts in Sopron and Pozsony, and had a success with his beautiful game, that Hungarian magnates offered a scholarship for his additional musical studies.

• The child got used to the performance and in Vienna he gave concerts. In1823 in May he made his first appearance in Budapest. He went onto a concert tour with his father in 1823 into France, then into England, he settled down in Paris later.

• His father ensued in 1827 his mother moved into Paris after his death.

• The French capital influenced the additional life of Liszt with its significantly growing intellectual and an artist's elite.

• He introduced himself as a conductor meanwhile. In 11 years he wrote 29 operas in Weimar. He gave concerts in many European countries, amazing his audience with his virtuosity. With his partner Marie d'Agoult-val, they moved into Switzerland.

• They had 3 children. His daughter Cosima helped much in his days before his death, and was with him throughout, but 1886.July 31. at 11 o’clock in the evening his father died.

Cosima

His major works:

• Symphonic poems:Danse macabre, Mephisto waltz

• Piano:A traveling diary of hisHungarian rhapsodies

• Ad nos, ad salutarem

undam (fantasy1850);

• Weinen, klagen

variacion (1863)

•Orgona’s:

• Oratorium’s: St.Erzsebet Legend

• Songs: Preludio

Made by:

Milan Gacs & Benjamin Szeredi

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