Adam Liszt, therefore, took his leave of the Prince's services. In the spring of 1823, when his one-year leave of absence came to an end, Adam Liszt asked Prince Esterházy in vain, for two more years. He was greeted in Austrian and Hungarian aristocratic circles and met Beethoven and Schubert. Liszt's public debut in Vienna on 1 December 1822, at a concert at the 'Landständischer Saal', was a great success. He also received lessons in composition from Ferdinando Paer and Antonio Salieri, who was then the music director of the Viennese court. There, Liszt received piano lessons from Carl Czerny, who in his own youth had been a student of Beethoven and Hummel. After the concerts, a group of wealthy sponsors (probably including composer Elise Schlick) offered to finance Franz's musical education in Vienna. He appeared in concerts at Sopron and Pressburg ( Hungarian: Pozsony, present-day Bratislava, Slovakia) in October and November 1820 at age nine. Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began composing in an elementary manner when he was eight. Franz also found exposure to music through attending Mass, as well as traveling Romani bands that toured the Hungarian countryside. At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing. He had been in the service of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy and knew Haydn, Hummel, and Beethoven personally. Liszt's father played the piano, violin, cello, and guitar. Life Early life Franz Liszt's mother, Anna Lisztįranz 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. In a radical departure from his earlier compositional styles, many of Liszt's later works also feature experiments in atonality, foreshadowing the serialist movement of the 20th century. Liszt has also been regarded as a forefather of Impressionism in music, with his Années de pèlerinage, often regarded as his masterwork, featuring many impressionistic qualities.

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. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work that influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century ideas and trends. Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (German: Neudeutsche Schule). During this period and into his later life, Liszt was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. Whereas earlier performers mostly served the upper class, Liszt attracted a more general audience. In what has now been dubbed ' Lisztomania', he rose to a degree of stardom and popularity among the public not experienced by the virtuosos who preceded him.

In these years, Liszt developed a reputation for his powerful performances as well as his physical attractiveness. Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, he toured Europe during the 1830s and 1840s, often playing for charity. Liszt first gained renown during the early nineteenth century for his virtuoso skill as a pianist. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era and remains one of the most popular composers in modern concert piano repertoire. Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empireįranz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, and teacher of the Romantic period.

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