AUSSTELLUNGEN EXHIBITIONS - Lisztomania 2011

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Lisztomania 2011 © Franz Liszt – The Genius from Raiding Born to be a Superstar Franz Liszt in Weimar, 1856. Photograph of a painting by Richard Lauchert © Landesmuseum Burgenland Franz Liszt was born on 22 October 1811 in Raiding, a town in today’s central Burgenland which at that time was part of Hungary. He displayed exceptional musical talent at an early age, and successful concerts in Sopron and Bratislava earned him a reputation as a child prodigy. His father, Adam Liszt – an overseer at the Esterházy sheep farm and himself an amateur cellist at the Esterházy court – arranged for Franz to have his first piano instruction with Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri in Vienna. At the age of twelve, Liszt was already taking the salons, stages and houses of the aristocracy in Paris und London by storm. Liszt is considered a revolutionary of piano playing. His solo performances and concert appearances were highly virtuosic, and he was the first pianist to give solo evening concerts, thus initiating the concert form known as the “piano recital”. He cultivated an eccentric manner on the stages of Europe and roused his audiences to transports of enthusiasm, especially the ladies, whose adoration soared at times to hysterical heights. During his years at Weimar, he invented the “symphonic poem”, single-movement programmatic works in which he attempted to express the spirit of the golden age of Goethe and Schiller. Liszt was also a deeply religious man and created numerous sacred works. Franz Liszt composed over 800 works which still enthrall audiences today. The piano virtuoso developed into a true European who was at home in Vienna, Budapest, Paris, London, Weimar, Bayreuth and Rome. He maintained active contacts with other musicians such as Richard Wagner, Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz and with the intellectuals of his day. Franz Liszt was not only a composer, piano virtuoso, conductor and teacher, but also an empathetic humanist who often gave performances for charitable purposes, a tolerant human being, a witty conversationalist and a man of great personal attraction.
Initiation Lisztomania 2011 © – Exhibitions How tumultuous was the applause which greeted him! Bouquets were thrown at his feet! It was a grand sight to see how calmly he, in his triumph, let the bouquets of flowers rain upon him and then finally, gracefully smiling, placed a red camellia, which he had plucked from one of the bouquets, in his button-hole. Thus I thought, thus I explained Lisztomania to myself. Twelve-year-old Liszt in Hungarian dress © Landesmuseum Burgenland Lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengel © Landesmuseum Burgenland Heinrich Heine, Essays II Franz Liszt, Photogravure Bruckmann, o. Inv. © Landesmuseum Burgenland To mark the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth, exhibitions at a number of venues in Eisenstadt and central Burgenland – some of them unique original locations – will be devoted to the life and work of the great composer. Taken as a whole, the exhibitions will present a picture of the important phases in the composer’s life and provide insights into a dazzling, complex personality: prodigy and piano virtuoso, star performer and heartthrob, composer and renewer of music, European, free thinker and clergyman. Liszt House Raiding, “Le petit Litz” – Origins of a Genius Lisztzentrum Raiding, Franz Liszt. The Weimar Sound Unterfrauenhaid Parish Church, Liszt, the Child Prodigy – Baptism and Prophecy Museum of the Province of Burgenland, Lisztomania – The Wizard at the Piano Haydn House Eisenstadt, Franz Liszt – Pioneer and Kapellmeister Extraordinaire Gallery of the Province of Burgenland, Vivat Liszt! Hear the Light – See the Sound. Tour d’Europe Museum of the Diocese of Eisenstadt, Abbé Liszt – The Man, his Music and his Faith Museum für Baukultur Neutal (museum of building culture), Free-Mason-Work. From Liszt to Sinowatz exhibitions 1
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