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In December 1835 their first daughter Blandine was born. Initially they arrive in Switzerland, which will inspire the musician for the Album d'un voyageur and the First book of the Années de pèlerinage. In 1833 he met the Countess Marie d'Agoult the following year George Sand.īetween 18 Liszt undertook a long voyage-flight with Marie d'Agoult, who abandons her husband and two daughters. In 1830 he attended the first performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphony Fantastica he met Felix Mendelssohn and Fryderyk Chopin. In 1826 he was on tour in France and Switzerland while continuing his studies with Reicha.įrom 1828 he settled in Paris where he lived teaching music. In 1825, when he was already known as a pianist, he played in London in the presence of King George IV. But the work, also because of the young man's inexperience, was unsuccessful and, despite being very interesting, it was forgotten. But it was thought to exploit his talent as a young prodigy making him compose an opera, Don Sanche. In 1822, in Paris, he studied theory and composition with Paer, but was not admitted to the Conservatory of the capital by Cherubini. After beginning early piano studies with his father Adam, a Hungarian descendant of German peasants in the service of Prince Esterházy, at eleven he moved with his family to Vienna where he studied composition with Salieri and piano with Czerny. Liszt is also remembered for his bigger hands than normal that made envy to the other musicians of that time. Like many musicians of his time, he already showed remarkable musical skills before the age of ten. He was also abbot in the Cathedral of Albano Laziale (Rome). He was the father-in-law of Richard Wagner, having married his daughter Cosima. In 1865 he became acolyte in the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church.

He was linked to Fryderyk Chopin and Robert Schumann from friendship and esteem. He was one of the great virtuosi of the piano of the nineteenth century, revolutionized the piano technique and the relationship between audience and performer. He studied and played in Vienna and Paris, traveled throughout Europe holding concerts almost everywhere. His CD, Lyrical Liszt, released by the Partita Records label, has been praised for “poetry, sensitivity…admirable tonal variety…beautiful playing throughout” (EPTA UK).Franz Liszt, known in Hungarian as Liszt Ferenc, and in German also as Franz von Liszt, was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and organist. Alcalay has performed in Europe, Asia, South America and throughout the United States-at venues including New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. A Steinway Artist, professor of piano at Azusa Pacific University School of Music and Fulbright Scholar, Dr. His teachers included Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Karen Shaw, James Tocco, Milton Babbitt and Ned Rorem. Aided by Maestro Bernstein, he continued his studies at The Curtis Institute of Music and then The Juilliard School, where he attained a doctorate in piano performance.

In 1984 he came under the tutelage of Leonard Bernstein, who affirmed his “outstanding talent as both a performer and composer” and awarded him a scholarship at Indiana University School of Music. Romanian-born pianist Eugene Alcalay began playing the piano at age two and composing at age eight. Huiwen Jiang will play Petrarch Sonnet 104 Wooju Lee, Paraphrase on Verdi's Rigoletto April Fenn, 'Vallee d'Oberman' from Ann èes de pelerinage, I.

FRANZ LISZT HANDS FREE

This event is free and open to the public.Ĭlass participants are piano students of Dr. Ohio Chapter of the American Liszt Society president Caroline Hong and ALS society members welcome guest pianist Eugene Alcalay (Azusa Pacific University) for a master class, 'Master Piano Works of Franz Liszt (1811-1886).' This event is presented as part of ALS Ohio Chapter's inaugural event, a celebration of Liszt's October birthday.

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