Franz Liszt


























Table of Contents

Life				page 1

Career			page 1

Compostions			page 1

Education			page 1 

Bibliography			page 2



































	Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in Raiding, Hungary.  Liszt was 

one of the greatest pianistsmof the nineteenth century and one of the most 

creative composers.  As a child he showed a great deal of musical gifts.  At the 

age of ten he moved with his family to Vienna where he studied with Carl Czerny 

and Antonio Salieri and played for Beethoven.  In 1823 his family moved to Paris, 

but Liszt was not allowed into the musical classroom because of his youth and 

foreign origin.  He had no further formal piano istruction though he did study 

compostion with Ferdinando Paer and Anton Reicha. 

	Liszt toured for several years as a piano player before he settled in 1834 in 

Geneva, Switzerland with the Countess Marie d'Agoult.  They had three children, 

Cosima, Blandine and the other name is not said.  In 1839, Liszt stared on a 

series of concert tours throughout Europe.

	In 1844, Liszt was appointed musical director in Weimar, he settled there, 

and in 1848 he abandoned concerting to devote himself to conducting and 

composing.  From these years in Weimar come his best know large compostios: 

teh two piano concertos, the Totentanz (Dance of Death) for piano and orchestra, 

the Dante Symphony (1856) and the Faust Symphony (1854-1857).

	Liszt left Weimar for Rome in 1859 with Princess Carolyne von Sayn-

Wittenstein, whom he met on a tour in Russia in 1847 and he lived with her until 

1863.  After they separated Lisz turned to writing religious music.  In 1865 he 

received minor orders and was made a priest by Pope Pius IX.  Liszt returned to 

Weimar in 1869, but after his appointment as a president of the New Hungarian 

Academy of Music in Budapest in 1975 he divided his time between Weimar, 

Budapest, and Rome.

	In celebration of his upcoming seventy-fifth birthday he embarked on his 

last grand tour.  On July 31, 1886 he died in Bayreuth, Germany while sleeping 

after a wonderful concert.






































Bibliography

1.  Liszt, Franz, Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia, (1993).

2.  Liszt, Franz, Spoken Arts Presents the Great Composers Series, Spoken Arts 

	Inc. : New York