Pianist, composer, conductor, dandy, intellectual and religious father, Liszt fascinated 19th century Europe. A child prodigy, he was taught by Czerny and Salieri in Vienna. Already famous at the age of fifteen, he revolutionised piano techniques and established the recital for piano solo as he covered the world performing either his opera transcriptions, Years of Pilgrimage or Hungarian Rhapsodies. Before 1830, not only Germany, Switzerland, England and France, but the whole of Europe knew and admired Liszt.
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Verbier Festival 2011
Verbier Festival 2007
From the Roman Theatre of Orange in the south o...
Royal Albert Hall
Works by Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin and Nono
The star soprano's classic 1990 recital — With ...
An immersive audiovisual Italian voyage
New Generation Piano Recital at the Fondation L...
Thomas Hengelbrock and the Royal Concertgebouw ...
A film by Marita Stocker
