They cover a wide range of moods and require mastery of a variety of virtuosic techniques. The Transcendental Études are a set of twelve highly varied and technically demanding compositions that pushed contemporary pianos (and pianists!) to the limit. Listen to the Best of Liszt on Apple Musicand Spotify. Scroll down to discover our selection of the best Liszt works featuring ten masterpieces by the great composer. The Piano Sonata In B Minor (1853) is generally acknowledged to be Liszt’s masterpiece and is a model of his technique of thematic transformation, which is also prominent in the symphonic poems. His piano works, including the Études, the Hungarian Rhapsodies, and the Mephisto Waltzes, are brilliant showpieces requiring both technical skill and expressivity. He also composed and performed orchestral music, including symphonic poems. Liszt made superb piano transcriptions of symphonies, operas, and large orchestral works of other composers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, and Wagner. The most decisive influence, however, came from the virtuoso violinist Nicolò Paganini who inspired him to become the greatest pianist of his day and to push piano technique through previously unimagined difficulties to attain new brilliance and sonorities. Liszt was a friend of many important composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Richard Wagner. He is best known for his virtuoso piano compositions which are amongst the most technically challenging in the repertoire. The lyrical style of these works is in marked contrast to his youthful compositions, which reflected the style of. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and one of the most important composers of the Romantic era. Franz Liszt - Franz Liszt - Virtuoso Pianist, Symphonic Poems, Hungarian Rhapsodies: In 1834 Liszt emerged as a mature composer with the solo piano piece Harmonies potiques et religieuses, based on a collection of poems by Alphonse de Lamartine, and the set of three Apparitions.
After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has been re-evaluated. Inspired by love and nature, he composed several impressions of the Swiss countryside in 'Album dun voyageur,' which would later. The Leipzig Conservatory, which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook. In 1833, at the age of 22, Liszt met the Comtesse Marie dAgoult. His essentially conservative musical tastes set him apart from more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz. He became well received in his travels throughout Europe as a composer, conductor and soloist his ten visits to Britain – during which many of his major works were premiered – form an important part of his adult career. Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany, and revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, notably with his performance of the St Matthew Passion in 1829.
His sister Fanny Mendelssohn received a similar musical education and was a talented composer and pianist in her own right some of her early songs were published under her brother's name and her Easter Sonata was for a time mistakenly attributed to him after being lost and rediscovered in the 1970s. He was recognised early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his talent. He was baptised at the age of seven, becoming a Reformed Christian.
Mendelssohn's grandfather was the renowned Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, but Felix was initially raised without religion. Portrait of Mendelssohn by the German painter Eduard Magnus, 1846
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