FERENCZ LISZT

 (1811-1886)

  Hungarian pianist and composer.

  As a child prodigy pianist, visited France and Britain.

  Lived with the Countess d'Agoult 1833-1844, one of their children
  Cosima later becoming Wagner's wife.

From 1848 lived with the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, whose eventual effort to secure a divorce
from her husband failed; Liszt separated from in 1861, never married, and in 1865 took minor orders
in the Roman Catholic Church and was referred to as 'the Abbé Liszt'.

He revisited London in 1886.  He consistently aided new composers from Berlioz to Grieg, and made
Weimar a highly important centre when he was court musical director there 1848-1859.

Was a bold harmonic innovator, especially in his late years.
His 'Hungarian' music is chiefly of a gipsy, not an authentically peasant, character.

Liszt at the piano with Dumas, Hugo, Sand, Pagannini & Rossini

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