FRANZ LISZT Â· EIN EUROPÃER IN WEIMAR - Klassik Stiftung Weimar

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Now I like to think first of Weimar, my lodestar, whose benevolent rays shed light on my winding road, […] of Weimar, the Fatherland of the ideal. Liszt to Arch Grand Duke Carl Alexander, 1846 On the occasion of the composer’s 200th birthday, Weimar invites you to visit the 2011 state exhibition: Franz Liszt A European in Weimar The exhibition focuses on the European dimensions of the personality, the composer and the interpreter as well as the artistic projects realised in Weimar. Liszt’s right hand, replica by unknown artist, probably around 1840
Liszt’s Hungarian passport, 1874 Franz Liszt, statuette by Károly Dosnyay, 1840 And because I showed myself as I was: an enthusiastic child, a firm believer, in a word everything one is when one is 18 […], because I did not know how to play comedy, I gained the reputation – of being an actor. Liszt, Reisebriefe eines Baccalaureus der Tonkunst (Travelogues by a Baccalaureate of Musical Art), 1837 The first part of the exhibition in the Schiller Museum follows the stages of Liszt’s life from the multicultural climate of the Habsburg monarchy via Paris, Switzerland, Italy and the virtuoso tours to Weimar, where most of his major compositions were written over a period of little more than ten years. These stages are presented in the form of a pilgrimage with Weimar as the destination and climax. The exhibition documents not only Liszt’s work and compositions, but also his significance in Europe’s history of music and thought. As a pianist, Liszt’s concert tours in the late 1830s and early 1840s took him all over Europe – from Paris to Constantinople, from Milan to St. Petersburg. He came to Weimar quite early, where he was appointed the court’s music director extraor dinaire in 1842. In Berlin, Liszt triggered an unparalleled “Lisztomania”, the effects
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