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.
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.
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.
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.