Franz Liszt

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The paper relates that Franz Liszt was a pianist, a composer and a teacher who created modern piano-playing technique and pioneered in harmony and piano composition. The paper discusses how his ideas were unique and popular, with many other composers utilizing them.

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"Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, in 1811 and was known as one of the "leaders of the Romantic movement in music" (Walker). While Liszt never married, he did have three children with Maire d'Agoult. (Gmoser) It would appear that his public life was first and foremost in the pianist's mind. Indeed, he was a man of great ideas. He was innovative, developing new methods, that Walker maintains were "both imaginative and technical, which left their mark upon his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and procedures" (Walker). Liszt was a pianist, a composer, and teacher among other things and his influence was far and great."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Gmoser, Lulu. Great Composers. New York: Smithmark Publishing. 1997.
• Goulding, Phil. Classical Music. New York: Ballantine Books. 1992.
• Schonberg, Harold. The Lives of the Great Composers. W. W. Norton and Company 1997.
• Walker, Alan. Franz Liszt. Grove Music Online. <http://www.grovemusic.com> Site Accessed April 06, 2008.

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