Franz Liszt. 200-Year Anniversary

Virtuoso to the core, Franz Liszt is highly respected and prolific composer and pianist, known both for his works and performances. His contemporaries were always highly impressed by Liszt’s phenomenal skill, precision and expressivity. Face of composer always reflected feeling of pieces he was playing; Liszt was always passionate towards his music even though he travelled – and giving concerts, consequently – a lot.

Liszt was also a piano accompanist and teacher. No less than forty people were fortunate enough to become his students. Liszt helped them to reveal their own creativity, not having an intention of making them sound like him. Even though it is already something you can’t help but appreciate, there is more to come: Liszt never charged for his lessons! He was altruistic type of person and had good sense of humor.

The greatest pianist of the 19th century and creator of new genres, such as symphonic poem and rhapsody, Liszt proposed to fuse music with architecture, painting and literature. Talking about literature, it wasn’t alien to him: he wrote a book about Chopin and had numerous publications; living up to the hilt, he participated in whatever seemed interesting to him.

In 2011 we celebrate Liszt’s jubilee – he was born 200 years ago. Sadly there were no camcorders in the 19th century – otherwise we could’ve seen how brilliant his concerts were. Being a pianist myself, I want to wish you to see Liszt performing live at least at your dream – on waking up your spirits will be raised and you will have inspiration for years to come. To have a higher chance for this to happen make sure you play Liszt's compositions quite often. Franz Liszt sheet music will help you with this – use smart filter to choose instrumentation, genre, or key or just browse more than 1000 scores of an epoch-making composer!..