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Franz Liszt

real name Ferenc Liszt

Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor

Raiding, Austria · 1811-10-22 – 1886-07-31

Franz Liszt is credited on 20,632 releases across 3,809 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Born: October 22, 1811, Doborján, Austria-Hungary (present-day Raiding, Austria).
Died: July 31, 1886, Bayreuth, Germany.
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano. To this day, he is considered by some to have been the greatest pianist in history. Liszt's musical invention went into territories which were then almost unexplored, in particular as regards harmonic research, as emerges from the late piano works, which led him to anticipate fragments of harmonies from the early twentieth century. His preference for program music is testified by the numerous symphonic poems he composed. Father-in-law to Richard Wagner.

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