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
musical tradition rooted
Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
numbers firsts musician
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
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.
music art feelings
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
moving passion musical
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.
music missing too-late
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
al destined divided hungary melody music native naturally song
In Hungary al native music is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
anyone assistance certain dared founded means perform scanty school works
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
opera needs wells
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
spheres gypsy improvisation
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
art light serenity
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
variation composer brahms
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
littles function windmills
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
sacrifice affection sorrowful
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.