When Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) gave up the life of a traveling piano virtuoso to devote himself to composition in 1847 it was with the enc...

Liszt was a tireless champion of Beethoven and his music. He was the first pianist to play the late piano sonatas, he gave a series of conc...

Franz Liszt was a musical genius, as a performer on the piano, conductor of an orchestra, and as a composer. He also had a tremendous drive...

Franz Liszt wrote his  Grosses Konzertsolo (Grand Concerto Solo) in 1849-1850, three years before his  Sonata In B Minor.    Liszt wrote i...

 Franz Liszt began planning the work as early as 1838 after he saw The Triumph Of Death fresco by Francesco Traini in the Campo Santo ...

The piano was central to the musical life of Franz Liszt. He was a virtuoso performer on the instrument from an early age, and his tours of ...

The influence that the virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini exerted on composers and performers of the early 19th century cannot be overestim...

Franz Liszt and Chopin met each other in Paris about 1831, and they performed in concert together a few times. The two composers developed a...

Franz Liszt as composer is most often thought of a writer of music for the piano and for his thirteen Symphonic Poems, but he also wrote 87 ...

Franz Liszt's 2nd Piano Concerto was published in 1863, but sketches for the work went back as far as 1839 when he was still touring Eur...

Franz Liszt was quite taken with the Faust legend, as were many artists of the Romantic era. He composed a Faust Symphony based on Goethe...

Franz Liszt was not only a musician of astounding technical abilities, but of pure musicianship as well. He could sight read the most comp...

Franz Liszt's reputation during his virtuoso touring years was one of a gifted musician, perhaps the world's greatest pianist, and...

The early part of the 19th century was a time of great change in music.The shift from a composer depending on the patronage of the church ...