Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Lisztwas a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philosopher, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth22 October 1811
dwelling peaceful fever
The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
plato inspiration mind
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
music art feelings
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
flirty flirting truth-is
Truth is a great flirt.
verbs
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
doors cuban-cigars world
A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
father taught-us air
So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.
gypsy found hungary
In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.
suicide sacrifice long
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
ambition wish instruction
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
trying misery companion
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
numbers firsts musician
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
cosmos spirituality harmony
The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
musical tradition rooted
Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.