Franz Liszt

Composer

1811-10-22 – 1886-07-31

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher of the Romantic era. Born in 1811, he became one of the most celebrated virtuoso pianists of the nineteenth century and an influential figure in modern harmonic language. He died in Bayreuth on 1886-07-31.

Quotes by Franz Liszt

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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Music is the heart of life. She speaks love; without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
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Music is the heart of life. She speaks love; without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
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