Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Lisztwas a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philosopher, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth22 October 1811
trying misery companion
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
ambition wish instruction
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
play style needs
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
song inspiration expression
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
theatre firsts recognition
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
real character shining
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
writing two lakes
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
art path recognition
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
destiny artist sorrowful
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
cosmos spirituality harmony
The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
nuclear-fusion impossible gypsy
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
music taken style
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
gypsy found hungary
In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.
heart glowing childhood
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.