![]() In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.” Quotes about Liszt "For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. “My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.” ![]() “Music is never stationary successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.” Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. “My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. In his last years, he abandoned the virtuoso style in favour of a bleak and introspective approach, pointing forward into atonality. Here his output consisted mainly of religious music. Around 1860, Liszt settled more or less permanently in Rome, where he took minor orders and became Abbé Liszt. In the so called War of the Romantics, he supported his son-in-law Wagner and the futuristic school of Weimar against the more conservative Leipzig school, most famously represented by Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. Liszt settled in Weimar and went on to compose some of his most important masterpieces, include the Faust Symphony, the Symphonic Poems, and the two piano concerti. However, at 35 years of age he abandoned the concert stage, persuaded by his new lover Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein to concentrate on composition. He was the first to play entire programmes from memory the first to play the full range of the keyboard repertory (as it then existed) from Bach to Chopin the first consistently to place the piano at right-angles to the stage, so that its open lid reflected the sound across the auditorium and the first to tour Europe from the Pyrenees to the Urals. The relationship went on for 12 years and resulted in three children – Liszt’s daughter Cosima would go on to marry Richard Wagner.ĭuring the years 1839 to 1847 Liszt unfolded a virtuoso career unmatched in the history of performance. Towards the end of 1832, Liszt was introduced to Countess Marie d’Agoult, who was to become his lover as she was already married, the couple eloped to Switzerland to escape scandal. One of the most important events of these early years was his witnessing of the concerts of the diabolical violinist Niccoló Paganini. Liszt became acquainted with a number of musical contemporaries at this time, including Berlioz, Chopin, Alkan and others. Still in his teens, he settled in Paris where he soon became a prominent figure in society, first and foremost because of his wizardry at the piano, but also because of his various romantic entanglements, which provided much material for gossip. Born in Hungary, he went as a boy to Vienna, where he studied with Czerny and Salieri and met Beethoven and Schubert. In his compositions he developed piano technique beyond recognition, made radical experiments in harmony and invented the symphonic poem. ![]() His championship of new composers like Wagner and Berlioz helped them to fame equally important was his promoting past masters including Bach, Handel, Schubert and Beethoven. If you would like me to give priority to a song that is not yet posted, please let me know via the contact page.Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the greatest piano virtuoso of his time, was also highly influential in shaping the western musical canon. Songs from this volume will be uploaded, when appropriate, as song posts are created for them. Google Books has the high voice volume available for download as a PDF file: Thirty Songs This is one of a series of posts about books used as source material for Art Song Central.
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