Born in Raiding in the Burgenland on 22 October 1811, died in Bayreuth on 31 July 1886; Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and writer on music. He studied in Vienna with Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri and from 1823 lived in Paris, where he caused a sensation as a piano virtuoso. From 1848 to 1861 he was court Kapellmeister in Weimar, where he championed the music of Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz; in 1865 he received minor orders in Rome. He spent his last years between Weimar, Budapest and Rome. His output comprises piano music, which he extended in technique and sonority, symphonic poems, orchestral and choral works, organ music and songs; numerous transcriptions and paraphrases of works by others and of his own belong to it. Two albums connect him with Cybele, both with Thomas Hitzlberger at the fortepiano: Franz Liszt: Transcriptions of His Own Songs (2000) and Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie (2003).
Franz Liszt
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