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Exploring the Life and Legacy of Franz Liszt

This quiz explores the life, works, and historical context of the renowned composer and pianist Franz Liszt, testing knowledge on his biography, contributions to music, and significant events in his life.

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1 How is Franz Liszt described?

2 When did Franz Liszt die?

3 [44] The form was a direct product of ________ which encouraged literary, pictorial and dramatic associations in music.

4 When was Franz Liszt born?

5 Questions have been posed as to whether ________ played a direct part in Liszt's demise.

6 On April 25, 1865, he received from Gustav Hohenlohe the tonsure and a first one of the minor orders of the ________.

7 Franz Liszt at the ________

8 Where did Franz Liszt die?

9 Latham, Alison, The Oxford Companion to Music (Oxford and New York: ________, 2002).

10 At end of May 1823, the family went to ________ again.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (pictured) was noted as a patroness of Schiller, Goethe, and Liszt.
  • although he wrote six dozen German songs (or Lieder), Franz Liszt (pictured) was accused by critics of never having had a proper grasp of the German Lied.
  • despite his pronounced nationalism, Czech composer BedÅ™ich Smetana was distrusted by his country's conservatives due to his close ties with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt.
  • Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt".
  • Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
  • Franz Liszt's abandoned opera Sardanapale was in part inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus (pictured).
  • Franz Liszt's piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called Lisztomania, which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos.
  • Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor was influenced by Franz Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy.
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