About Franz Liszt: Franz Liszt was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary.
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the...
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
