Liszt

The best-known compositions by Franz Liszt are his nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies, but he also created beautiful sonatas, symphonies, concerti, songs, and religious compositions.

The best-known compositions by Franz Liszt are his nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies, but he also created beautiful sonatas, symphonies, concerti, Lieder, and religious compositions.

Franz Liszt created the concept of the "symphonic poem". This is a composition for orchestra that uses music to describe nonmusical content. This could include, for example, people, legendary figures, landscapes, or paintings.

"Liszt", the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt's family name, means "flour" in Hungarian.

He played the Liszt sonata blindfolded.

Liszt and Chopin became friends.

Liszt and Chopin became friends in Paris.

The man was Brahms and Liszt.

That man was Brahms and Liszt.

To all of this new, strange music, Liszt and Chopin added the wonderful tracery of orientalism.