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Franz Liszt befriended Chopin in Paris and described the sound of Chopin's Pleyel as being "the marriage of crystal and water". [213] While in London in 1848, Chopin mentioned his pianos in his letters: "I have a large drawing-room with three pianos, a Pleyel, a Broadwood and an Erard." [212]
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.
Frederic Chopin, a talented young pianist and composer, captivates his teacher Professor Józef Elsner with his extraordinary skills at the age of 11. Elsner receives an invitation from the renowned music publisher Louis Pleyel to bring Chopin to Paris, hoping to replicate the success of Franz Liszt.
Funérailles is subtitled "October 1849". This has often been interpreted as a sort of funeral speech for Liszt's friend Frédéric Chopin, who died on 17 October 1849, and also due to fact that the piece's left-hand octaves are closely related to the central section of Chopin's "Heroic" Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53, written seven years earlier.
Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include: Liszt, Franz (1852). F. Chopin (in French). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. [2] [3] — (1880). Life of Chopin. Translated by Cook, Martha Walker [at Wikisource] (4th ed.) – via Project Gutenberg. — (1890). F. Chopin (in French) (4th ed.). Leipzig: Breitkopf et Haertel – via Project ...
Franz Liszt is living in Chamonix with Countess Marie D'Agoult, the mother of his children, when Frédéric Chopin and George Sand visit him. They tell him about all the things he has missed since he left Paris, and how a new piano virtuoso, Sigismond Thalberg, is captivating audiences. The Countess wants him to remain in seclusion and compose.
Alan Walker, FRSC (born 6 April 1930 [1]) is an English-Canadian musicologist and university professor best known as a biographer and scholar of composer Franz Liszt.Walker has also written on composers Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin, as well as conductor Hans von Bülow.
Romance S.169, the theme of which is based on the song "O pourquoi donc" ("Why, oh Why"), is a piece of music written in 1848 by the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during a visit to Moscow. It bears some resemblance to Chopin's Nocturne in E minor, [1] as both pieces commence with broken E-minor chords.