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Liszt would be considered a virtuoso performer due to his advanced performance technique at the time - he also had quite a bit of flair. Many of his concerts featured piano reductions of orchestral symphonies, bringing the enjoyement of the musical works to the public.

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He rose to his fame due to his virtuosity as a pianist. Inspired by the virtuosity of Niccolo Paganini and Frederic Chopin, he set out to create his own musical style and outdo the two. During his three month stay in Paris, he performed 38 recitals!

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If you are refering to Franz Liszt, he was a composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. No violin. His grandfather could play the piano, violin and organ. So there was a Liszt that played the violin but the most reconized of them was Franz Liszt and he didn't played the violin.

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He is thought by many to be the greatest pianist of all time, and this is based in part upon the complexity of much of his music. He was one of the founders of a certain flamboyant tradition of piano recital/concert, and was a phenomenal showman in every sense of the word. He was the orchestral conductor for Richard Wagner for many years. Liszt wrote many piano arrangements of some of the great orchestral music of his day; this may seem inconsequential to us and even a waste of effort, but in a time when there were no recordings, Liszt helped introduce large audiences to, for example, the Beethoven symphonies in the form of accessible 2-piano arrangements. He took considerable heat for eliminating from his arrangement of Beethoven's 3rd the famous dissonance that clashes out three times before capitulation of the first thematic material of the first movement.

Liszt was also legendary as a piano teacher, and there are many pianists today who can trace their training directly back to Liszt, Chopin, and others.

A lot of List's music seems today to be showy, and even bombastic. He was a fiery and attractive performer in his youth, and he devoted a lot of his energies to producing technically challenging pieces. But he wrote, especially in his later years, a lot of music that is very far-sighted, even mystical. Who knows what he might have produced had he devoted more of his prodigeous gifts to the development of music rather than to works of technical brilliance?

He had a deep, curious and searching musical mind, even if detractors say otherwise. His B minor sonata is testament to that. Even though it is in some ways groundbreaking and modern, I still struggle deeply with it. I have never decided whether it is prfoundly beautiful or loathesome. I don't know if there is higher praise that I could give to any piece of art; it resonates with me in a challenging way that I simply cannot describe.

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1: composed more than 100 original works

2: he gave his first show at the age of 9

3: he started playing piano by his dad at age 6

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He lived during the end of the Classical era, through the Romantic era, and at the beginning of the Impressionist/Modernist era.

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Franz Liszt was known for his music.

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