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Franz lizst.8/7/2023 ![]() After leaving her husband for Liszt, the two lived together and had three children. Liszt never married, but did have a long relationship (40 years!) with Polish Princess, Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein they were together from 1847 until he died in 1887.The fourth, written in 1885, was given the title of Bagatelle sans tonalite(Bagatelle without tonality) – which must have been very strange at that time. The three and a half Mephisto Waltzes (the fourth wasn’t finished when he died) were among Liszts’ most famous piano pieces – and immortalised in the 1971 film starring Alan Alda they were written over a thirty year period.Liszt was one of the first composers to see the true value of the percussion section – something we take for granted in modern compositions. A preconceived disinclination and objection top percussion instruments prevails, which is somewhat justified by frequent misuse of them’. In his defence, Liszt wrote the following in a letter, ‘As regards the triangle, I do not deny that it may give offence, especially of struck too strongly and not precisely. But the use of this tiny percussion instrument in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto in E-flat, for a solo part (yes, a solo!) sharpened many a critics quill. It is rare that the humble triangle should become the focus of any attention. ![]() It is still occasionally played in concerts. It was ‘re-discovered’ in 1991 in a religious institution in Rome and, after much investigation, was certified as his. The piano owned by Liszt for the last 20 years of his life and which he’d had installed on the upper floor of his Villa in Tivoli Italy, was apparently ‘lost’ after the last known concert on it in 1904 by Paderewski.4,631 1821) allowed notes to be repeated far more easily and quickly than in previous ‘single escapement’ mechanisms. This little invention (English patent no. In 1821, Erard, the piano builders that deemed Liszt to be one of their ‘Erard Artists’, on account of their providing him with pianos for his concerts, created an innovation still found in today’s pianos – the double escapement.The monumental set of 12 Transcendental Studies, were actually written three times firstly, in 1825, when Liszt was only 13 years old – they were quite bland then, the set written at the height of his virtuosic powers in 1837 (aged 26) – which were virtually unplayable finally, the set which is most often heard and played, the 1857 version. ![]() Despite this withering assessment of the young pianist, the same critic did say that there wasn’t much else that he fault him on. A critic reported that ‘In power of tone, he is, perhaps, rather deficient’.
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