Liszt's People and Works

Question 1

Maria Anna

Answer 1

Mother; a chambermaid and bore Liszt as an only child

Question 2

Adam

Answer 2

Father; a clerk in the court of Prince Esterhazy and a cellist in F.J. Haydn’s orchestra

Question 3

Carl Czerny

Answer 3

Piano teacher at age 10

Question 4

Antonio Salieri

Answer 4

Composition teacher

Question 5

Berlioz, Bellini, Donizetti, Chopin, Paganini, Heine, Hugo

Answer 5

Artistic acquiesces in Paris

Question 6

Marie d’Agoult

Answer 6

Long-term relationship partner who left husband for him bearing 3 children Blandine, Cosima, Daniel. The relationship ended bitterly

Question 7

Berlioz, Verdi, Schumann

Answer 7

Composers who’s new opera Liszt would produce

Question 8

Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein

Answer 8

A married aristocrat he met in Kiev and lived with from. Relationship ended in 1864

Question 9

Raiding

Answer 9

Hungarian city of birth

Question 10

England, Ireland, Switzerland, France

Answer 10

Countries young Liszt toured

Question 11

Vienna

Answer 11

Austrian city where Liszt took lessons from Czerny and Salieri

Question 12

Paris

Answer 12

French city where Liszt continued education and pursued his performing career (First period 1827-1847)

Question 13

Weimar

Answer 13

German city where Liszt moved to to focus on composition and conducting (Second period 1848-1861)

Question 14

Rome, Weimar, Budapest

Answer 14

Italian, German, and Hungarian cities where Liszt spent most of his final years, moving first to Rome, and being appointed President of the Music Academy in the last (Third Period 1861-1886)

Question 15

Orchestral:

Answer 15

Symphonic poems such as Les Preludes; Program Symphonies such as Faust, Dante

Question 16

Orchestral with Piano:

Answer 16

3 piano concertos: Malediction, Totentanz, Hungarian Fantasy

Question 17

Chamber:

Answer 17

Organ compositions

Question 18

Piano:

Answer 18

Transcendental Etudes, Three Petrarch Sonnets, Liebestraume, Consolations, 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, Années de pelèrinage (3 volumes), Mephisto Waltzes

Question 19

Transcriptions:

Answer 19

Lieder by Schubert, Symphonies by Beethoven, Operatic fantasies

Question 20

Vocal:

Answer 20

Oratorios, Masses, Lieder