![]() Liszt's immense keyboard skills and flamboyance established new stylistic and technical standards in piano performance, ushering in the era of the modern piano-virtuoso-as-showman, and securing for him a fame unprecedented for his time. ![]() ![]() Although his larger-than-life personality and scandalous amorous adventures seemed at odds with his decision, late in life, to seek the holy orders (henceforth becoming known as l'abbé Liszt), his embrace of the full spectrum of life produced a creative legacy of unprecedented richness and breadth of perspective, and one of immeasurable impact upon the music of his era. He was tirelessly devoted to the progress and dissemination of music both old and new, raising audience awareness of the works of his musical forebears (such as Beethoven and Bach) as well as of his contemporaries (Wagner and Berlioz) through performances, transcriptions and writings. His imaginative approach to musical form, harmony and structure anticipated and inspired subsequent composers to explore the paths that he established as the foremost piano virtuoso of his time, he introduced technical innovations that greatly expanded the expressive range of that instrument. As a composer, pianist, teacher, conductor and author, Franz Liszt (born Doborján, Hungary, Octodied Bayreuth, Germany, July 31, 1886), one of the foremost proponents of the Romantic tradition in Western art music, exerted a formative influence on the course of musical expression in the nineteenth century and beyond.
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