Romanticism · The romantic piano
1811 – 1886
Raiding (Hungary) - Bayreuth
Review
Alumno de Czerny and Salieri, was the most dazzling pianist of his time; his concerts unleashed an authentic «lisztomania». He was the first to offer piano solo recitals.
He left the virtuous career to lead in Weimar, where he created the symphony poem and supported Wagner, who would end up his son-in-law. Generous master of hundreds of students, in his last years he received minor orders in Rome and his music became visionary.
Main works
- Hungarian rapsodia
- transcendental execution studies (1852)
- Liebestraum No. 3 (1850)
- Sonata en si minor (1853)
- The Preludios (1854)
- Fausto symphony (1857)
- Concerts for piano # 1 and # 2
- Years of pilgrimage
