Franz Liszt combined sensational keyboard prowess ... although he was never ordained as a priest. An apocryphal story tells that while he was preparing to enter the Holy Orders in Rome, Liszt was ...

Almost everyone admits that Franz Liszt was one of the giant figures of ... In his youth, he wanted to be a priest, and in the 1830s he was an eager supporter of all the new-fangled ideas of ...

Standing at the center of each is the First Piano Concerto of Franz Liszt ... after he was done with the groupies, Liszt became a priest.) An enthusiastic ovation inspired the pianist to continue ...

The women who screamed and swooned for the 19th Century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set the pattern for fans in our own time – from The Beatles to Justin Bieber. The spectacle of young women ...

few composers fulfil the function better than Franz Liszt. You either get him or you don't. His music is to love or to loathe. A few years ago, while compiling a list of the 50 greatest composers for ...

If the programmers were braver, they would have gone for Franz Liszt instead. Austrian demi-god, the first popstar, a 19th-century wonder who transcribed the entire set of Beethoven symphonies for ...

Pianist Lang Lang honors his idol on the new album 'Liszt: My Piano Hero.' When you think of rock n' roll, Franz Liszt might not be the first name that comes to mind. But the classical pianist ...

every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt. Not all of them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine ...

By David Allen Marc-André Hamelin’s recording features fantasias on Italian opera by Franz Liszt and Sigismond Thalberg, who faced off onstage in 1837. The American Symphony Orchestra ...

Yundi Li performs Franz Liszt's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat major. It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major.