Liszt: Etudes

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Cat No: 8557014

Release Date: 01 February 2004

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: LISZT

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886):Etude en douze exercices Etudes de concertMorceau de salon Ab irato MazeppaOn 1st December a very talented boy by the name of Liszt,coming here from Pressburg, gave a concert in the town grand concert-hall, andthrough his playing and his remarkable facility aroused general wonder. ... Hereceived great and rousing applause.Wiener AllgemeineMusikalische Zeitung. 7.12.1822Born at Raiding, in Hungary, in 1811, the son of Adam Liszt,a steward in the service of Haydn's former patrons, the Esterhazy Princes,Franz Liszt had early encouragement from members of the Hungarian nobility,allowing him in 1822 to move to Vienna, for lessons with Czerny and a famousmeeting with Beethoven. From there he moved to Paris, where Cherubini refusedhim admission to the Conservatoire. Nevertheless he was able to impressaudiences by his performance, now supported by the Erard family, piano manufacturerswhose wares he was able to advertise in the concert tours on which he embarked.In 1827 Adam Liszt died, and Franz Liszt was now joined again by his mother inParis, while using his time to teach, to read and benefit from the intellectualsociety with which he came into contact. His interest in virtuoso performancewas renewed when he heard the great violinist Paganini, whose technicalaccomplishments he now set out to emulate.The years that followed brought a series of compositions,including transcriptions of songs and operatic fantasies, part of thestock-in-trade of a virtuoso. Liszt's relationship with a married woman, theComtesse Marie d'Agoult, led to his departure from Paris for years of travelabroad, first to Switzerland, then back to Paris, before leaving for Italy,Vienna and Hungary. By 1844 his relationship with his mistress, the mother ofhis three children, was at an end, but his concert activities continued until1847, the year in which his association began with Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein,a Polish heiress, the estranged wife of a Russian prince. The following year hesettled with her in Weimar, the city of Goethe, turning his attention now tothe development of a newer form of orchestral music, the symphonic poem, and,as always, to the revision and publication of earlier compositions. It was in 1861 at the age of fifty that Liszt moved to Rome,following Princess Carolyne, who had settled there a year earlier. Divorce andannulment seemed to have opened the way to their marriage, but they nowcontinued to live in separate apartments in the city. Liszt eventually tookminor orders and developed a pattern of life that divided his time betweenWeimar, where he imparted advice to a younger generation, Rome, where he wasable to pursue his religious interests, and Pest, where he returned now as anational hero. He died in 1886 in Bayreuth, where his daughter Cosima, formerwife of Hans von B??low and widow of Richard Wagner, lived, concerned with thecontinued propagation of her husband's music.Liszt was a musician of remarkable precocity. Hi
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