Why Listen to Liszt?

While the classical era of music was characterized by elegance, discipline and structure, the romantic era in music was a time of great diversity, innovation and passion, from this era emerged some of the most accomplished and daring composers who ever existed, Chopin, Schubert Wagner and Brahms were just a few on this huge list of geniuses, but where did Fran's list fit into this picture? He was one of the greatest innovators since Beethoven and if there was a composer who understood the enormous breadth of romanticism, that was it. He was a man of extreme contrasts, something that is well reflected in his music.

We hear moments of the most violent diabolical outbursts. and some of the most heartbreaking vulnerable screams but with that we also hear the greatest victorious and heroic melodies

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ing to the list we can hear echoes of the great composers of the past but with that we also hear expansive forms and harmonies that usher in the next century of Composers That's Why You Need to Listen to Fran List Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in Hungary. His father Adam List was an amateur musician and he quickly realized Franz's talent within his home. Adam often showed his son the structured music of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.

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ed to them, he was ecstatic and tried to improvise to his music. However, Franz also grew up with other types of music like this. Not introduced by his father, this was the flowing, sometimes vulgar gypsy music that France could hear right outside his house. These contrasting styles, classical and gypsy, had a great influence on Liszt. It is often heard in his compositions, complex and passionate passages interwoven with vulgar rhapsodic melodies. As in his third funeral ode at the age of nine, France gave his first concert as a pianist and it was surprising that the Hungarian imams who attended the concert saw the talent in the young roster and made an investment in him paying for the next six years. of his education, but Adam, his father, would soon discover that Hungary could not provide Listzt with the knowledge and attention he needed, so he made the bold decision to move to Vienna in 1821.

This move would prove to be a great success. Vienna was home to one. One of the best music teachers of the time, Karl Cherny Journey saw List, on the one hand, as a neglected and sickly child, but he also saw great potential in enlisting and decided to dedicate almost every night to teaching Cherny. He meticulously fixed List's technical problems and created a firm foundation. of technique but perhaps most importantly cherny also established great respect in list for beethoven's music cherny was a student of beethoven and beethoven would become one of list's greatest inspirations for the rest of his life as people recognized that list He was an excellent pianist.

It was around this time that Adam noticed a talent in List's ability to compose music and so he found one of the best composition teachers in Vienna. This was Antonio Salieri, 71, who became famous in common folklore as Mozart's rival Adam List. He saw his son's success in Vienna, but he wanted even more and that's why he took a leap of faith by moving to Paris. Paris brought them greater success, but after three years of continuous touring, both father and son were exhausted, that's when tragedy struck and Adam suddenly fell ill. and Franz died, he lost his mentor and his father and this event would plunge him into a period of deep pain.

Franz Liszt, shocked by the death of his father, composed a funeral march, a piece that laments for his father but also for his career as a prodigy that He felt that he had been brutally crushed by fate with no income. France reluctantly became a piano teacher. His love for music began to fade shortly after and it was only thanks to his mother that he would give music another chance. These were some of the darkest moments of his life List's life and we can hear this dark energy in many of his compositions, such as this passage from his piano concerto.

However, List's life would soon take a huge turn due to three colossal events. The first event exploded in July 1830, when the French July Revolution broke out. Remarkably, this lifted List out of his depression and inspired him to outline a revolutionary symphony that would not be completed until nearly two decades later. The second great event of his life would come a few months later in the form of a fantastic symphony that he heard. Berlioz is something fantastic in concert and this climactic, diabolical and passionate symphony would forge an indissoluble bond with Liszt. The third major event came shortly after, when Liszt attended a benefit concert by Nicolo Paganini.

Paganini's virtuoso playing style would resonate with Liszt so deeply that Liz made the decision to become the Paganini of the piano, a virtuoso the likes of which the world had never seen in the last decade, List had also acquired another interest in literature, he was fascinated by writers like byron and goethe, and there was another writer who was just as fascinated with

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as he was with literature marie dagul from 1835 to 1838 they traveled to switzerland and italy and fell in love and had three children daniel blondine and kozuma but this It was not just a love of traveling, they were what Liszt called them, the years of pilgrimage.

This is where List's passion for composition exploded with the combination of his accumulated literary knowledge, the beautiful landscapes of Switzerland and the legendary scenes of Italy. Liszt composed two suites. musicals that had a new level of innovation and complexity the first suite was based on a year in switzerland and the second suite was based on a year in italy each suite is full of movements inspired by buildings, places, works of art and even states of mood that he found on his travels, what we can notice in this music is its pure innovation and creativity. Liszt began to experiment with unusual dissonances and strange textures.

Take this piece su apreun lectio from Dante's fantasia quasi-sonata, which is movement seven of sweet two, an entire piece built from tritones and a chromatic descent from its stark, lamenting introduction to its tempestuous cascade of chords that takes us to through scenes of souls snarling in hell to its transcendental climax depicting victorious choruses rendered with barrages of octaves. He pushed the piano to its absolute limits, but the world was constantly changing and Liszt wanted to create music. More innovative than anything he had written before, it was Liszt himself who said that new wine demands new bottles with the old forms and with the new ones.

In a burst of inspiration, the Faust Symphony arose decades ago, which Berlioz had introduced into the list. Gerta Fausto's famous work this Plays a very intrigued list and the Filthy Symphony abandoned the old four-movement form of the classical symphony and instead captures the psychological and physical characteristics of each of the main characters in Goethe's story, Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles. Each move focuses on one of these characters. Liszt too. extensively develops a technique that beethoven started Since 12-tone music was conceived and will return in all kinds of transformations and disguises like here or here or here many of these transformations are subtle sometimes almost unrecognizable from the original theme, but it shows how far Liszt could develop and run. with a single idea but this symphony could not satisfy Liszt's desire for new forms the compositional production of list was about to enter an even higher level of innovation this was the invention of the symphonic poem since the premiere of the fantastic symphony list had always tried to expand what burley was created a symphonic poem was an orchestral work that was used to capture or evoke the poetic feelings of different paintings, poems and landscapes with the list of symphonic poems, he finally gave life to his old sketches of ideas , take for example the heroic funerary symphonic poem that was Inspired by the men who died fighting in the July Revolution 20 years ago, the piece balances symphonic elements of traditional musical development with programmatic elements or narrative elements that seem to musically describe the battle along with a funeral march for his victims, perhaps the list's current reputation lies in his virtuoso years the years 1838-1847 his first concerts were extremely controversial the media mocked him for his dramatic gestures and exaggerated improvisations when

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performed His highly virtuoso transcriptions and compositions in Paris were not exactly well received; critics were especially harsh on the growing virtuoso and refused to publish any of his piano works.

It would take the public several months to adapt to Liszt today. Solo recitals can fill concert halls regularly and can be an extremely enjoyable form. of listening to music, but the factors that make a solo recital so enjoyable, the variety of different pieces, the memorization of the music, and the solo pianist posing as a superstar, all of these characteristics of a solo recital are They can trace back to the list whether it was Liszt, for example, who had the piano positioned sideways to the audience with the lid open so they could see his hands, face and instrument all in one.

This position is now conventional around the world thanks to Liszt's Listless, who knows if the solo recital as we know it today would even exist anyway List's fame had skyrocketed in 1842 and people were obsessed with his style of playing. , his appearance and even his dramatic gestures that the media mocked all those years before he played with such passion and fury that the famous German writer Heinrich Heiner appeared. with a term for all the madness that would occur when list performed listermania when list played, some people would faint and others would trample each other just to get their dead tissues and cigarettes, one could almost argue that liszt was a precursor to elvis mania or beetle mania. his style of composition also developed his piano music he inherited a kind of symphonic tone at the end of 1847 list had performed more than a thousand concerts and toured most of europe but list shocked the world by suddenly ending his career as a virtuoso list and His wife had separated after he began a relationship with Princess Caroline von Sane Wittgenstein It was Caroline who convinced Liszt to leave his life as a virtuoso and concentrate on the composition list He was no stranger to tragedy Critics despised him Some mocked him Of course the loss of many harmless friends but even more than that would be the loss of your loved ones and your children.

List never got over the death of his father and the loss of his children led List into another deep depression. Death being such a prominent theme in List's life would take over all at once. final epilogue unable to handle the burdens of life list retired to a monastery for a quieter and more religious end took a final year of pilgrimage this time alone and isolated liszt's compositional style changed dramatically with a final burst of creativity the last works of the list were largely religious works that often contained elements of the prominence of death and the afterlife, these latter works would also be the most innovative.

His legend number one, depicting Saint Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds, formed the basis of Impressionist music with its cascade of arpeggios depicting birds singing joyfully while his The Macabre Tonless Bagatel created a new path for the Expressionists. of the 20th century, but his long-awaited death finally came on July 31, 1886 and he was buried at Byroid in Germany as one of the most prominent pianists of the 20th century, Claudio Arau later declared the most prominent on the list. Important and enduring works are born from his fascinating imagination, his entire technique and his foresight of the direction in which the language of music could gradually evolve.

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