Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer.
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- Any chord can follow any chord.
- also attributed to Max Reger
- Génie oblige! (Genius obliges!)
- one of Liszt's life-mottos
- When the Tsar speaks everyone should remain silent.
- When asked by Nicholas I why he suddenly stopped playing the piano during the final concert of his first Russian tour. Quite a suicidal move in the Russian Empire of the 1840s!
- "le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."
- What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown song of which death sounds the first solemn note?
- from the preface to Les Préludes