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HUNGARIAN CREATIVE GENIUS General
Information:
Birth Place: Raiding, Hungary
Birthday Date: October 22, 1811
Died: July 31, 1886
Died In: Bayreuth, Germany
*Hungarian form of his name is
Liszt Ferenc. Romantic Era
● Franz Liszt was born into the Classical and
Romantic Era
● Classical Era = 1730 - 1820
● Romantic Era = 1750 - 1870
○ This was a period where ideas started to
revolt against precise rules and laws Program Music
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● Franz Liszt is the best known composer for program music
Hector Berlioz helped mature the development of program
music with his works, but Franz Liszt is far more important
in the development.
○ Liszt surpasses Berlioz with a larger amount of
originality and creativeness.
○ Liszt had new ideas, methods, procedures, proposed new
problems, and created solutions to old problems he
attempted. CREATIVE GENIUS
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● ● Child prodigy
Age nine, 1820, he made his
debut as a pianist
Classical and romantic era
music style
Age of ten, 1821, his father,
Adam Liszt, took him abroad to
seek proper artistic training
in Vienna, Austria.
Placed under Carl Czerny and
Antonio Salieri, they taught
him piano playing, harmony,
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proceeded to Paris
Liszt played in several
towns on the way
He had a concert of his own
performed in Paris, at the
age of fifteen
Performed his concert in
french provinces and England They Influenced
Liszt...
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Carl Czerny
Heinrich Heine
Charles Baudelaire
ferdinando paër
Anton Reicha Becoming The Best
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● The results of studying with Czerny and Salieri were put to
the test at two concerts, at which he played, on December 1,
1822, and April 13, 1823
He played Hummel's concertos in A minor and B minor. Also,
he performed improvisation and created something
spontaneously.
He left the audience astonished and satisfied, especially
Beethoven who gave him kisses after both concerts.
He absorbed the legacy of Czerny, Salieri, and Beethoven
Liszt became the greatest piano virtuoso Liszt...
sustained social networks
in Paris, England,
Vienna, Weimar, Rome,
Budapest, and more...
The number of people he
knew and influenced
probably exceeds that of
any other figure in the
history of music. Illness & Melancholy
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● ● After the death of his father, August 1827, Liszt settled down in
Paris as a piano teacher
Soon after, he was ill for two years
The virtuoso in him remained dormant for some time
Concert-touring & compositions have been neglected for many years
He felt his youth belonged to his father, as he threw him into the
music world at such a young age
“Franz Liszt lost interest in music to such a degree that he began
to question his profession”
The strict intensity of music wounded the feeling of love, art,
and religion that Franz Liszt carried in his heart since a young
boy, as he was very religious
He felt like he was a slave to the art world Melancholy Pt. 2 ~ Quote
● ● “...premature melancholy began to weigh upon me, and I bore with
an instinctive repugnance the ill-disguised degradation of the
artistic servitude...” “...I, altogether unconscious of myself, of what I ought to aim
at, and of the capacities that were allotted to me, allowed
myself to be invaded by a bitter disgust with art, reduced as I
saw it to a more or less lucrative handicraft, to an amusement
for the use of good society, and I should have preferred being
anything else rather than a musician in the pay of the grands
seigneurs, patronized and salaried by them like a juggler or like
the clever dog…”
(From Franz Liszt, 1837, Lettre d'un Bachelier ès Musique: à un
poète voyageur). Contributions to Recovery
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● After his illness he started reflecting on work, incidents of
career, and his development as an artist
Five major events brought him an artistic revolution
○ The French Revolution of 1830 sparked his motivation and
aroused his lack of energy
○ Paganini’s arrival in Paris, March 1831
○ Chopin's arrival in Paris, soon after Paganini’s in autumn
1831
○ Second performance of Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, with
other compositions, on December 9, 1832
○ Liszt married Marie d'Agoult is 1834
“He was on a quest to discover his creative essence, a new
artistic identity.” INSPIRED
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events/influences = Liszt
created, within a few
years, a new pianoforte
style
Transcriptions were his
main output as a
composer, but from 1834
he produced his original
pianoforte compositions
in a programmatic style
1839 - 1847 Liszt toured
all over Europe, and was
very successful Franz Liszt - Liebestraum 1850 Another Female Influence ~ 1847
Liszt remarried to Princess Carolyne zu
Sayn-Wittgenstein. Her influence on him was
dramatic and powerful. She encouraged him to
stop touring, so he could teach and compose,
instead. Also, so he could have a more
domestic life with her.
She had a revolutionary effect on his career
and development as an artist. She ended his
career as a virtuoso, and opened his career
as a composer of symphonic, solo, and choral
vocal works. Creation of New Musical Forms
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● ● ● 1848 -1858 = most famous achievement was
creation of symphonic poem
Definition of symphonic poem: a type of
orchestral musical piece that
illustrates or evokes a poem, a story,
a painting, or other nonmusical source
picturesque music effect the soul of
listener with all the resources of the
orchestra
The program has no other object than to
indicate the moments which compelled
the composer to create his work, the
thoughts which he tried to incorporate
in it. The program also helps guard the
hearer against random poetical
interpretation, and at advance tell
them the poetical idea/point as a
whole. “We are told that he, 'transports
his hearers with him to ideal
regions, which he leaves the
imagination of every individual
free to conceive and adorn. In such
a case it is very dangerous to wish
to impose on our neighbour the same
scenes and series of thoughts to
which our imagination feels itself
transported. Here everyone should
be allowed to enjoy silently his
revelations and visions.” July 31, 1886
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● Franz Liszt closed his long, eventful, and truly
artistic career at Bayreuth, Germany on July 31, 1886
He has achieved a lot throughout his lifetime. He was a
piano virtuoso, composer, teacher, conductor, organist,
philanthropist, author, these all are of lasting
significance.
Liszt's new works inspired eager pupils to seek his
guidance.
For the next 10 years, Liszt's radical and innovative
works found their way into the concert halls of Europe,
winning him followers and opponents. WORK CITED
Programme music in the last four centuries; a contribution to the history of musical expression : Niecks, Frederick, 1845-1924 : Free
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Franz Liszt (1911): James Huneker ... - amazon.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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Front Matter edited by Christopher H. Gibbs and Dana Gooley; in Liszt and His World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2006), 0-20
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PART I: ESSAYS: Liszt, Italy, and the Republic of the Imagination written by Anna Harwell Celenza; edited by Christopher H. Gibbs
and Dana Gooley; in Liszt and His World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 23-58
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PART II: BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS: Liszt on the Artist in Society written by Ralph P. Locke and Franz Liszt, 1811-1886;
edited by Christopher H. Gibbs and Dana Gooley; in Liszt and His World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 311-322
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