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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Liszt
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Interesting Facts about this famous classical composer and musician are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Accomplishments and reasons Liszt is famous: Classical Composer and musician - Franz Liszt was one of the leading Romantic Period Composersof the New German School

  • Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Liszt was born on October 22, 1811
  • Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Raiding in Hungary
  • Fact 4 - Full Name: Franz Liszt
  • Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1811-1886
  • Fact 6 - Name of mother and father: His parents names were Adam Liszt and Marie Anna Lager
  • Fact 7 - Family background: His father Adam Liszt played the piano, violin, cello and guitar and had been in the service of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy
  • Fact 8 - His father knew Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven
  • Fact 9 - Childhood and education: Franz Liszt was recognised and achieved early fame as a child prodigy
  • Fact 10 - Franz Liszt appeared in concerts at the age of 9 years old and attracted wealthy sponsors who financed his musical education abroad
  • Fact 11 - Franz Liszt grew into a very attractive man who women adored and had a relationship with Countess Marie d'Agoult who left her husband for in - they had 3 children together lived in Switzerland. Eventually the couple separated
  • Fact 12 - Franz Liszt lived with Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein but when attempts to gain a dispensation to marry from the Catholic church were blocked by the Tsar of Russia the relationship crumbled
  • Fact 13 - Desperate for a peaceful life Franz Liszt joined a Franciscan order in 1857
  • Fact 14 - He continued to play concerts
  • Fact 15 - Cause of death was pneumonia
  • Fact 16 - Date of Death: Liszt died July 31, 1886 in Bayreuth
  • Fact 17 - His music lives on and the musical works of Liszt include the following:
    • Transcendental Etudes
      Hungarian Rhapsodies
      Sonata in B minor
      Les Préludes
      Dante Symphony
      Totentanz
      Faust Symphony

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