Liszt

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A Hungarian composer and piano player from the 1800s famous for brilliant piano music

proper noun
/lɪst/

: Liszt

In the world of classical music, Liszt is celebrated for his innovative compositions and virtuosic piano technique.
Liszt and Brahms
Berlioz and Liszt
Liszt and Wagner

And I thought instead of Newton on the beach, what if Franz Liszt were there?

Examples

There has always been a visual aspect to music, and we need only think of Franz Liszt in one of his roles, that of nineteenth-century piano virtuoso, playing with the piano positioned so that the audience could admire his profile.

Academic text (1997)
With such consideration, we might recognize the musical innovations that composers such as Liszt, Beethoven, and Brahms were able to achieve using the piano.

Academic text (1998)
She's on the committee for the Liszt Competition, and she asked about you.

Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
A pianist may practice hundreds of hours trying to master a Liszt concerto.

Academic text (2013)
Once more, Liszt's études filled her with their great beauty.

Fiction book (1999)
Tonight she'd give her listeners something very European: the Liszt Transcendental Études.

Fiction book (1999)
Play a recording of Franz Liszt's "Totentanz: Paraphrase of the Dies Irae."

Blog text (27)
The audience was captivated by Liszt's performance of the Hungarian Rhapsody at the gala concert.
Many music students aspire to learn pieces composed by Liszt due to their technical challenges.

Synonyms

Franz Liszt

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A Hungarian composer and very skilled pianist known for new and difficult piano music

is the shorter form without the full given name

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The word Liszt is the surname of the famous Hungarian composer. In Hungarian the same word liszt means 'flour', so a simple way to remember him is to imagine flour dusting a piano, which links the name to his famous piano music.