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Franz Liszt

1 How is Franz Liszt described?

2 When did Franz Liszt die?

3 [44] The form was a direct product of ________ which encouraged literary, pictorial and dramatic associations in music.

4 When was Franz Liszt born?

5 Questions have been posed as to whether ________ played a direct part in Liszt's demise.

6 On April 25, 1865, he received from Gustav Hohenlohe the tonsure and a first one of the minor orders of the ________.

7 Franz Liszt at the ________

8 Where did Franz Liszt die?

9 Latham, Alison, The Oxford Companion to Music (Oxford and New York: ________, 2002).

10 At end of May 1823, the family went to ________ again.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (pictured) was noted as a patroness of Schiller, Goethe, and Liszt?
  • although he wrote six dozen German songs (or Lieder), Franz Liszt (pictured) was accused by critics of never having had a proper grasp of the German Lied?
  • despite his pronounced nationalism, Czech composer BedÅ™ich Smetana was distrusted by his country's conservatives due to his close ties with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt?
  • Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt"?
  • Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach?
  • Franz Liszt's abandoned opera Sardanapale was in part inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus (pictured)?
  • Franz Liszt's piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called Lisztomania, which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos?
  • Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor was influenced by Franz Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy?
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