Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Complete Piano Music, Volume 17 • Schubert Song Transcriptions 2

“In his transcriptions of Schubert songs he created a new farm. That is his successful attempt to render the melodic and harmonic beauty of the new classical song as a lyrical whole on the piano alone, perfecting this in the strength of the song and of declamation, without in any way sacrificing the rich resources of the keyboard in his hands.”

Carlo (Pietro Mechetti)

Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, 7th December, 1839

Born at Raiding, in Hungary, in 1811, the son of Adam Liszt, a steward in the service of Haydn's former patrons, the Esterházy Princes, Franz Liszt had early encouragement from his father's employers and other members of the Hungarian nobility, allowing him in 1822 to move from his birth-place of Raiding to Vienna, for lessons with Czerny and a famous meeting with Beethoven, and from Vienna to Paris. There C