Liszt was one of the greatest promoters of the piano solo performance. He was the first to start positioning the piano on stage so that the right profile of the pianist would face the audience. Prior to this, the pianist was usually face to face with the audience and this was not optimal in terms of seeing the pianists hands, or in terms of projecting sound to the audience. In effect, Liszt invented the solo piano performance, and thanks to his incredible skill and dazzling performances, audiences became interested in seeing performances that were solely a piano recital, versus the variety style shows which were common at the time. Liszt also embraced and promoted both the geniuses of his time and prior. Without Liszt and his skills as a transcriber, we would not have access to many of the works of Schubert, and other masters of the genre. The great master even spent his final years teaching piano for free.
Franz Liszt is associated with the piano, both as a composer and a performer. Toward the end of his life he also composed organ music.
The avant-garde
Piano. One of the greatest piano virtuosos in history.
Liszt
E-flat major.
Franz Liszt is associated with the piano, both as a composer and a performer. Toward the end of his life he also composed organ music.
The avant-garde
Piano. One of the greatest piano virtuosos in history.
Franz Liszt first received piano lessons from his father, Adam Liszt, when he was seven.
He's best known for his piano work
Franz Liszt - Liebestraum
Liszt
Sonate in b minor
E-flat major.
Franz Liszt. According to The Franz Liszt Site at http://www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt2.html "It was he who devised the Piano Recital and as such he faced the piano sideways to enhance the audience's visual and acoustic experience. This standard of today was unheard of before Liszt. "
When Claude Debussy was seven, he started to recieve piano lessons from Cerutti, a violinist.
He was also a well known piano teacher and a conductor.