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Franz Liszt [n 1] (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
Portrait by Franz von Lenbach, 1879. Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner (née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult.
Liszt is a Hungarian surname that means 'flour'. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hungarian composer and pianist Adam Liszt (1776–1827), father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt; Anna Liszt (1788–1866), mother of Franz Liszt; Cosima Liszt (1837–1930), daughter of Franz Liszt and later the wife of ...
Complete genealogy of the Liszt family (flawed and plagiarized from the literature): pfarre-paudorf.com; Michael Lorenz: "An Unknown Grandmother of Liszt", Vienna 2012. Notes On the genealogy of Franz Liszt (based on the flawed secondary literature used in Professor Walker's biography of Liszt cited as reference 4 below): part 1 part 2
∞ 2. 1870 Cosima Liszt (1837–1930), daughter of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, divorced in 1870 from the conductor Hans von Bülow, [1] mother of five children (including Cosima's two daughters with Bülow, Blandine and Daniela, Wagner's step-children): Isolde Ludowitz von Bülow (1865–1919)
Alongside Carl Tausig, Bülow was perhaps the most prominent of the early students of the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor Franz Liszt; he gave the first public performance of Liszt's Sonata in B minor in 1857. He became acquainted with, fell in love with and eventually married Liszt's daughter Cosima, who later
She was also a great-granddaughter of the composer Franz Liszt. [2] Her father died, aged 61, when she was 10. Verena Wagner grew up in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth and attended the Obernkirchener rural school.
Princess Carolyne was a fervent Roman Catholic, but separated from her husband after only a few years of marriage. In 1844 her father died, leaving her a fortune. [5] On 2 February 1847 (), while on a business trip to Kyiv, she attended a piano recital by Franz Liszt during his third tour of the Russian Empire, at the peak of his international celebrity. [6]