His was able to bring this music to the attention of people who otherwise would never have heard it. 'The way he championed these works, very often, was to transcribe them for piano so he could play the music in his recitals - for instance he transcribed all nine symphonies of Beethoven, a tremendous undertaking.

'These were composers whose genius Liszt felt it was terribly important for the world to recognize - especially Schubert and Beethoven,' says Hoffman. But he also championed works of composers who had come before. He then wrote as large as he could on the blackboard ‘Vive La France’ then he dismissed the class with a gesture with his hand. He tried to speak, but overwhelming emotion choked his voice. He championed composers who were alive at the time - Berlioz and Wagner. M Hamel stood up to say farewell to his students and the people of the town. And as a person, Liszt was remarkably benevolent. The 27 songs are brief slivers of ideas, underdeveloped shadows of what might have been, reaching a beautiful fulfillment in the later works. A new CD collection entitled The Other Mozart celebrates Franzs music - in all its haunting, melancholic innocence. Wagner, Bartok, and Debussy were all heavily influenced by him. Everyone has heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart few of his son Franz Xaver. What's certain, Hoffman says, is that Liszt was in many ways an important pioneer as a composer. But I should probably make an exception - or pianists would angry with me - for Liszt's B minor Piano Sonata, because many people, especially pianists, do consider it a masterpiece.' him Liszt first heard of it from the newspapers. When I listen to his piano works, for example, I'm more struck by the virtuosity than by the beauty or the depth of the music itself. him, Liszt was never a solid thinker on any subject but music. 'I don't think of Liszt as a composer of masterpieces. 'I think there are people who would disagree with me, but I would make the case that Liszt was not so much a great composer but was an extraordinarily important composer,' Hoffman explains.

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