Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sacred Choral Music Vol. 1:
Ave Maria, S20/1
Die Seligpreisungen (The Beatitudes), S25
Pater noster, S41/1
Via Crucis, S53
Vater unser, S29

Franz Liszt was born in 1811 at Raiding (Doborjan) near Ödenburg (Sopron) in a German-speaking region of Hungary. His father, Adam Liszt, was a steward in the ernployrnent of Haydn's former patrons, the Esterhazy Princes, and an amateur cellist. The boy showed early musical talent, exhibited in a public concert at Ödenburg in 1820, followed by a concert in Pressburg (the modern Slovak capital Bratislava). This second appearance brought sufficient support from members of the Hungarian nobility to allow the family to move to Vienna, where Liszt took piano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from the old Court Composer Antonio Salieri, who had taught Beethoven and Schubert. Legend has it that he was ki