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The native form of this personal name is Liszt Ferenc. This article uses the Western name order.

Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Ferencz Liszt, in modern use Ferenc Liszt, from 1859 to 1867 officially Franz Ritter von Liszt) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungariancomposer, virtuosopianist and teacher.

Liszt became renowned throughout Europe during the 19th century for his great skill as a performer. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. He was also an important and influential composer, a notable piano teacher, a conductor who contributed significantly to the modern development of the art, and a benefactor to other composers and performers, notably 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"). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work, in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. 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.

Life

Main article: Life of Franz Liszt

Early life

The earliest known male ancestor of Franz Liszt is his great-grandfather, Sebastian List, who as one of the thousands of German-speaking migrant serfs entered Hungary from Lower Austria in the first half of the 18th century, and died in 1793 in Rajka, Moson County. Liszt's grandfather was an overseer on se

Franz Liszt was born October 22, 1811, in Raiding, Hungary. He is the greatest composer born under the sign of Scorpio, a mystical and enigmatic sign of the zodiac. He was ardent in his life; he expressed the power, the passion, the inspiration and the sublimity that characterize this sign.

It is interesting to note that Liszt was born when the heavens were lighted by the spectacular grandeur of a great comet, an augury, perhaps, of a life whose radiance still illumines the horizon. “My sole ambition as a musician,” said Liszt, “has been and will be to cast my javelin into the indefinite spaces of the future.”

Qualities of Scorpio

Scorpio possesses the unfathomed depth and power of the sea. In conformity with its broad expanse, the Scorpio native chafes at restraint. This was a marked characteristic exhibited by Liszt in his personal life and in his music.

The poet Saphir wrote of him: “Liszt knows no rule, no form, no style. He creates his own. With him the bizarre becomes genial, the strange comes to seem necessary.” Scorpio is a powerful creative sign. It is a magnetic field wherein the forces of generation are operative. Liszt did have rules, form and style, but he was capturing this form on a higher level of the cosmos than had ever been captured before. Therefore, to man’s consciousness it appeared that he was breaking rules. Actually he was spiraling to a higher level of different rules, different forms, different laws.

His was a new thesis. The world’s ways were an antithesis of it. The synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis became a new form of music which was imitated by the world’s greatest composers, including Wagner.

Clara Schumann said of Liszt, “He can be compared to no other virtuoso. He is the only one of his kind. He arouses fright and astonishment, though he is a very lovable artist.” Another of her comments brings out the depth and power of his Scorpio natur

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He was also a writer, philanthropist, Hungarian nationalist, and Franciscan tertiary.

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, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Regina Watson, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.

A prolific composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School German: Neudeutsche Schule. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work which influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century ideas and trends. Among Liszt's musical contributions were the symphonic poem, developing thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form, and radical innovations in harmony.

Life

Early life

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 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

Belgian composer, conductor and critic

Adolphe-Abraham Samuel (11 July 1824 Liège, Belgium – 11 September 1898 Ghent, Belgium) was a Belgian music critic, teacher, conductor and composer.

Biography

Adolphe-Abraham Samuel was born in Liège in an artistic family. His parents encouraged him to become a painter and he began studying at the age of seven. He received his earliest music education from his sister Caroline before studying solfège and piano with Etienne Soubre and Auguste Franck and the Royal Conservatory of Liège. At the age of twelve he performed in concerts organised by the Belgian violinist Charles Auguste de Bériot and his sister-in-law Pauline Viardot. In 1840 he entered the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he studied harmony with Charles Bosselet, counterpoint with François-Joseph Fétis, piano with Jean-Baptiste Michelot and organ with Christian Girschner, earning first prize diplomas in all these disciplines. In 1841 he became an assistant teacher for solfège at the Brussels Conservatoire and the following year an assistant teacher for piano at the same institution.

In 1845, Samuel won the Prix de Rome (Belgium) with his cantata "La Vendetta. He furthered his studies with Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig and with Giacomo Meyerbeer in Berlin and met Ferdinand Hiller in Dresden before touring Italy for two years in 1846 and 1847. During his time in Rome he composed his opera Giovanni da Procida and his second symphony which was premiered by Fétis in Brussels in 1849.

Upon his return to Brussels in 1848 he composed many operas which were performed at La Monnaie. From 1850 to 1860 he was also active as a music critic fo