Franz Liszt, born October 22, 1811, was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era. He was additionally a philanthropist, Hungarian nationalist, and Franciscan tertiary.

Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.

A prolific composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (German: Neudeutsche Schule). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work that influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century ideas and trends. Among Liszt's musical contributions were the symphonic poem, developing thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form, and radical innovations in harmony.

Liszt was also a fantastic arranger, notably arranging La Campanella by Paganini in to a piano solo and all 9 Beethoven symphonies into piano duets. Liszt is often regarded as the “Paganini of the Piano” (or Paganini will be called the “Liszt of the violin) because of not only his incredible performing skills but notable difficulty of his pieces. He was a romantic who’s style has much flair to it, almost all of his pieces (when played properly) wow not only your average non-musician but a good pianist as well. Not to say he was only flashy, his works require not only great technique but musicianship as well. Dynamic contrast is a huge part of many of his works, and if you play without soul his writings sound dead, which would be an insult to Franz.

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