Liszt: Sacred Choral Music

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Cat No: 8553786

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099478625

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: LISZT

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Sacred Choral MusicVol. 1:Ave Maria, S20/1 Die Seligpreisungen(The Beatitudes), S25Pater noster, S41/1Via Crucis, S53Vater unser, S29 Franz Liszt was bornin 1811 at Raiding (Doborjan) near ?ûdenburg (Sopron) in a German-speaking region ofHungary. His father, AdamLiszt, was a steward in the ernployrnent of Haydn's former patrons, the EsterhazyPrinces, and an amateur cellist. The boy showed early musical talent, exhibitedin a public concert at ?ûdenburg in 1820, followed by a concert in Pressburg(the modern Slovak capital Bratislava). This second appearance brought sufficientsupport from members of the Hungarian nobility to allow the family to move to Vienna, where Liszt tookpiano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from the old Court ComposerAntonio Salieri, who had taught Beethoven and Schubert. Legend has it that hewas kissed by Beethoven, an event that must have been supposed to confer thelegitimacy of succession on the boy. In 1822 the Liszts moved to Paris, where, as aforeigner. he was refused admission to the Conservatoire by Cherubini, but wasable to embark on a career as a virtuoso, displaying his gifts as a pianist andas a composer. On the death of hisfather in 1827 Liszt was joined again by his mother in Paris, where he began to teach thepiano and to interest himself in the newest literary trends of the day. Theappearance of Paganini in Paris in 1831 suggested new possibilities of virtuosity as apianist, later exemplified in his Paganini Studies. A liaison with amarried woman, the Comtesse Marie d'Agoult, a blue-stocking on the model oftheir friend the novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevant), and the subsequentbirth of three children, involved Liszt in years of travel, from 1839 once moreas a virtuoso pianist, a r61e in which he came to enjoy the wildest adulationof audiences. In 1844 Liszt finallybroke with Marie d' Agoult, who later took her own literary revenge on herlover. Connection with the small Grand Duchy of Weimar led in 1848 to hiswithdrawal from public concerts and his establishment there as Director ofMusic Extraordinary, accompanied by a young Polish heiress, Princess Carolyne zuSayn.Wittgenstein, the estranged wife of a Russian nobleman and a woman ofliterary and theological propensities. Liszt now turned his attention to newforms of composition, particularly to symphonic poems, in which he attempted totranslate into musical terms works of literature, to the disapproval of criticssuch as Eduard Hanslick in Vienna. Catholic marriage toPrincess Sayn-Wittgenstein had proved impossible, but application to the Vatican offered some hope,when, in 1861, Liszt travelled to join her in Rome. The couple continued to liveseparately there, starting a period of his life that Liszt later described as unevie trifurquee (a three-pronged life), as he divided his time between hiscomfortable monastic residence in Rome, his visits to Weimar, where he heldcourt as a master of the keyb
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