A Brief History of Franz Liszt 

“I knew he was spending a lot of time at the piano but i was doubtful he would get that far with an app”

Today Liszt is regarded as one of the greatest piano Virtuous of all time. He was also listed in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the most prodigious sight-readers of all time. At some point in his life he took two years to perfect his technique after he heard the leading violin virtuoso of the day, Niccolo Paganini. Afterwards his technical ability was regarded as phenomenal and unsurpassed in his day. Works like the Liszt Sonata in B minor, the Transcendental Etudes and the Liszt Paganini are an incredible attestation to his powers as a virtuoso and composer. In Liszt day only a handful of pianist could play them because he advanced the technique to another level hitherto unknown. Although some of his works are regarded as bombastic, he wrote many first class compositions that are regarded a hallmarks of the repertoire. Liszt reputation as one of the greatest pianists and composers still stands to this day.

This is very accurate to how my life has went. Thank You for informing everyone about my life. Sincerely, Franz Liszt

Considering that Beethoven was totally deaf by 1823 I'd call that anecdote about him being at Liszt's concert and being impressed to be a fabrication.

A brief history of Rachmaninoff?

In French "I'm excited" ("je suis excitée") means something entirely different.

The picture at 1:38 is actually of Liszt's apartment in Budapest right next to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. I've been there, and it is certainly quite something

The best of all time. He could play anything at first sight perfectly! Even Chopin recognise how genius Liszt was, he said he wished to play his own compositions as Liszt played it.

Is no one going to acknowledge the fact that with the emerald eyes and strong facial features she looks like she could be Liszt's daughter?

Hungarian here! Thanks for emphasizing how Liszt considered himself as Hungarian, aka Magyar. Austria tries to claim him as "theirs" though even his name is Hungarian (Liszt means flour). Also, just a little insight because I saw some comments in the comment section: Hungarians pronounce "sz" as "s" and "s" as "sh" --> that's why it's Liszt. Do not confuse "sz" with "zs" because we pronounce "zs" as "j" ;) *flies away*

The greatest pianist of all time, none compare.

Do hardest and least hardest by Liszt

liszt is always gonna be my fav artist !, i have his face tattoed on my shoulder, and i have liebestraum on my right arm. hes music inspired to play piano at age of 5, btw i love your videos :p

I've always had a superficial vision of Liszt as the rockstar of Romanticism, but this video made me change my mind! Waiting for part 2... By the way, I'm a beginner composer/songwriter, if any of you would check some of my little songs and give me some feedback, I would really appreciate. (I hate spamming, I'm just searching a way to start, hope you'll forgive me) Cheers!

Please make the easiest and hardest pieces of Franz Liszt

Great clip!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

Wow I was just going to request this! Now I can't wait for part two. Thanks for the information :)

Enjoyed your presentation. Thank you.

thank you for making this video!

i luv how u fluently speak please do videos on Sir Mozart

That was great, thank you!!!

Thank you for this video! I guess my (our) request has been listened! Great video!

7:56 there you go guys, event Liszt had to PRACTICE to become virtuoso despite he was a prodigy. So, GO PRACTICE !

It is a very good way of summarizing his story! Thank you so much!!

Just incredible. Thanks for this. Liszt is my all time favourite composer.

Give us more video like this. I’m in amazement.

Wow...there are so many things about Liszt I didn't know. I knew that he was a great pianist, his rockstar image and the overlap of time period with Chopin but I was completely unaware of his initial struggle. Thanks for making this video!

YESSS!!!! I HAVE BEEN WATING FOR THIS I AM EXCITED!

I HAVE BEEN WAITING

These history videos are always so much fun to watch, thank you for making them so interesting!

Thank you for the story

Love it! Liszt is awesome. Can't wait for part 2

Yeees, thanks for making this video!!!

So nice to hear your history and passion for such a great musician.

I love this and have been following your vids for 3 years. Your green eyes are not distracting at all. Thank you.

Great video. Thank you

I actually play the violin, but your channel is so amazing that I want to watch every video you upload

Brilliant.

Thanks! I shared this with my middle school music history students!

my all time favorite

Love your "Brief History of" it is easy for me to enjoy.

Brilliant

I recently came across this channel and your passion is really contagious and it's amiable to watch someone who clearly enjoys what one's doing :)

An excellent video. It's astonishing how many people we consider geniuses today, who were ignored, dismissed, or even scorned during their time. I am relatively new to Liszt, having listened more to Chopin. The power and virtuosity of his music is breathtaking, and I have barely scratched the surface. Will watch Part 2!

Franz liszt . Rockstar of his time..

Great video!

My brother introduced me to list after I introduced him to classical music through Mozart and Strauss. Thank you for this nice history. If I may add you're also very beautiful.

I don't really play piano, but i enjoy solo piano music greatly and I find your videos very entertaining.

Has anyone said this to you before? You're so beautiful! Keep up your good work! Cheers from Malaysia =)

Man, all of this information kind of goes wayward from what I was taught about Franz Liszt and "Lisztomania" that happened at the time he performed. From what I was taught and learned, he was widely acclaimed even more-so than Chopin.

He was extremely handsome. No wonder women fainted when he played. ❤❤

Thank you!

Really great video.

Thank you :)

Great video. I think we implicitly assume that the greats always stood head and shoulders above everyone else. It's hard to imagine Liszt struggling as a composer - playing his now famous works to an unappreciative audience. And it's even more surprising that there were composers considered great in their time, who history forgot. I certainly had no idea who Thalberg was.

Aww man I want the next part...

Yayyyy! 2 parts!

Everytime you said “Little Liszt” I laughed. My family(now LIST, to avoid the Hungarian pronunciation, Lischt)is descended from Franz. That being said, I have two older sisters, whenever I entered a new school, all of the teachers and older students always called me “Little List” which annoyed me at the time. Thank you for this video, I needed to brush up on his story to use for lyrics for a song I’m writing called “the Liszt goes on”. The piece was inspired by Queen, Led Zeppelin, And Liszt too(including a piano solo inspired by Piano Concerto No. 1 in E♭major). I play 9 instruments(and sing)now and was recently contracted as a composer for a musical being sponsored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The song is meant to be a tribute to Liszt and a recollection of his life and times followed by a brief lyrical epithet on the challenge of being a respectable musician with such a surname! Sorry for the random comment, I just wanted to let you know why I appreciated this so much! I subscribed as well!

Hi from Russia! Thank you very much for your impressive RU-vid channel!

you're awesome

I love Liszt, what a beautiful relationship he shared with God 🕊️🎼🕊️ He was for sure a Rockstar of his time, the man was gorgeous 🖤🖤🖤 Great video and information Thankyou 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

handsome devil, too, small wonder women were fainting at his concerts! :)

Very intresting, all prodigy lifes is a dramatic story

5:53 Hilarious really enjoyed this episode

Thank you so much for this video-- love your channel! Is there any particular book(s) that you would recommend to a Liszt novice?

I really wish you would make a video about requiem Masses and talk about confutatis and lacrimosa

If he had facebook Hed have alot of friends on his franz liszt since hes famous.

He was a composer and a virtuoso pianist with massive hands ✋🤚, perhaps the first person to have played Bach on a “modern piano” in a recital. Yaay ! 😀

heard he was like a rockstar in his time :)

Some people , whether it's great musicians like Liszt , Beethoven and Mozart or scientists like Tesla , Curie and Pasteur , are just completely built different. They really make you feel the awe and the barrier that is called talent.

Dang! Thank you so much! I've been wanting and waiting for this video to happen ever since you mentioned it in a couple of other of your videos! But, to be honest, I bet Franz Liszt was at the top of his game in his generation in terms of sheer piano virtuosity. I just wish I had a decent amount of technical skill and sight reading abilities to play and learn Chopin's preludes (a future goal of mine.) Keep up all the good work. (My piano teacher told me to work and finish on the first mvt by the end of this month (along with bach's prelude in c major). Do you have any tips for me on how to learn it quickly and play it efficiently?) I'll work it up to tempo this time. I barely ever use my metronome, but this time might as well be a good time to start using it. Bye Bye! (P.S How dost thy do, fair maiden/madame?)

sounds awesome! do you record the piano yourself, or is it a midi file?

I just wish I could see the reactions from the people he played for hearing Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 for the very first time. I wish they had a movie or something lol

i didn't expect that cliffhanger xDDD expecting part 2

I listen to Liszt on the treadmill lol

That is such a cool painting at 7:41! Using reverse image search, I could only seem to find it as the cover of "Paganini The 6 Violin Concertos." If anyone knows the source of the full painting, please clue me in!

on 12:34 you point at Berlioz and call him "Mendelssohn" ! You might want to check this. Thanks for the film, all the best for you !

A fairly easy piece by Listz would be his nocturne; "En Reve."

5:53 hits home

Please do the hardest and easiest by Liszt

My god Allysia! You have the most beautiful green eyes. 😍. And oh yeah, Liszt was great, and all that. (I’m actually more of a jazz fan, just here by chance.)

Liszt is great. I love his harmonies, they’re so rich and complex, and he heavily influenced Wagner in this respect. And damn, she’s super cute!

8:19 if thats true wow makes me respect liszt even more

Interesting

To clear up any confusion, Liszt was born in Doborjan, Hungary, which is present-day Raiding, Austria.

Thanks for dealing with my story 😄

Hi, thanks for your videos, my grandfather is a huge fan of Franz Liszt but he doesn't speak english so I wanted to ask you if you could enable "community contribuitions" so I could add the translations to your video, it wouldn't be a problem and I think it could benefit your channel, what do you think? :D

could u do a brief history of tchaikovsky pls ?

I never knew Liszt was such the consumate lothario lol Great bio!

I love this video! Only correction is that Franz List did born in Hungary not in Austria. Like the rest of Burgenland, Raiding (Hungarian: Doborján), belonged to Hungary or the Kingdom of Hungary from c. 900 to 1920/21. After the end of the First World War, Western Hungary was given to Austria with the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon; there it formed the new province of Burgenland.

If you want information about Franz Liszt, it begins and ends with Prof. Alan Walker, whose twenty five years in research is...very enlightening. You can also Google Prof. Walker lectures. Most Biography including this one is pure fantasy...

Liszt is flour. Wow....

That the best like to dislike ratio i have ever seen well done.

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Daddy issues seem to be a theme in the live of the great composers. btw there is still not enough Mozart on your awesome channel

I refer to this as equally those who try to paraphase. Example...Bible for dummies, from the King James Bible. Similarly the Life of Franz Liszt begins and ends with the work of Alan Walker, whose life work of twenty five years, needless to say is astounding. It does a disservice to the artist and composer, to do less. There is an introduction to Alan Walker, that you can Google that I think you would fine very interesting, its called 'F. Liszt Piano Transcription of the Beethoen Symphonies by Prof. Alan Walker

Will you do like a examination of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition?

Those with...bolder taste...might wanna check out Ken Russell's movie "Lisztomania." A biography of Liszt's music, if that makes sense. It is less historically factual and more emotionally representative of Liszt and his music. ... But. Be warned...it's Ken Russell. 😆

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