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 ...

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 ...

Discover the life and impact of Franz Liszt, the 19th-century Hungarian composer and pianist who redefined music superstardom, as explored by Gergely Fazekas from the Liszt Academy. Kid Cudi takes ...

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 ...

Composer, teacher, Abbé, Casanova, writer, sage, pioneer and champion of new music, philanthropist, philosopher and one of the greatest pianists in history, Liszt was the very embodiment of the ...

Franz Liszt’s scintillating journey to the Underworld challenges pianists and thrills audiences. Jeremy Nicholas compares a selection of recordings of this diabolic masterpiece and selects his ...

What if I told you that the first “rock star” was piano virtuoso Franz Liszt? According to the BBC, Franz Liszt was music’s first “rock star. " His electrifying stage presence enraptured ...