Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a 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, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (Neudeutsche Schule). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated many 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable musical 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.
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Liszt - Life, Love & Afterlife
Liszt - Piano Transcriptions
Liszt - Chopin
Liszt: Orgelwerke
The Sound of Weimar. Schubert - Liszt Transcriptions
La Veillée imaginaire: Airs populaires harmonisés, de Chopin à Canteloube
LISZT, F.: Songs (Nardis, Campanella)
LISZT, F.: Piano Music (Michele Campanella Plays Liszt's Bechstein) (Campanella)
LISZT, F.: Cello and Piano Music (Complete) (Dillon, Torquati)
LISZT, F.: 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante (Vacatello)
Organ Recital: Robin, Jean-Baptiste - ALBÉNIZ, I. / BARBER, S. / BARTÓK, B. / BIZET, G. / DEBUSSY, C. / LISZT, F. (The American Symphonic Organ)
LISZT, F.: Piano Music (Etudes d'execution transcendante) (Campanella)
Piano Recital: Würtz, Klára - LISZT, F. / SCHUBERT, F. / SCHUMANN, R. / CHOPIN, F. (Romantischer Klavierabend)
LISZT, F.: 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies (Pizarro)
LISZT, F.: Organ Music (Kaiser)