He read a lot of books to try to educate himself properly. It was the first of many love affairs he had with various women. After his father died he became a piano teacher in Paris. Liszt continued to travel to other countries. On his second visit there in 1825 ,he played to King George IV at Windsor. Soon he was asked to play the piano everywhere in Paris. So he studied music theory privately with Reicha and composition with Paer. He wanted to go to the Conservatoire to study music but Luigi Cherubini would not let him in because he was a foreigner (i.e. In 1823 his family moved again, this time to Paris. Beethoven is supposed to have kissed him on the forehead. He soon became famous although he was still a young boy, and he met famous musicians like Beethoven and Schubert. He had piano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from Salieri. He was so promising that some rich Hungarians said they would pay for his music education. He was a child prodigy, and within a year or two he was already playing in concerts. When he was seven his father started to teach him the piano. Liszt’s father was an official who worked for Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, the same noble family who employed the composer Joseph Haydn. He was very helpful to other composers who lived at that time, helping them to become better known by conducting their works and playing some of their orchestral pieces on the piano. In his compositions he often used new ideas which sounded very modern in his time. In this way he developed the technique of piano playing, setting new standards for the future. Many of his piano pieces were harder to play than anything that had been written before. He was the greatest pianist of his time and went on lots of tours through Europe where everyone filled the concert halls to hear him. Liszt (pronounced like “list”) was one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century. Engraving based on an old photograph.įranz Liszt (born Raiding, Octodied Bayreuth, J) was a Hungarian composer and pianist.
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