Long before Elvis or Mercury, Franz Liszt turned piano concerts into mass hysteria. Discover the birth of musical fame.

Discover the life and impact of Franz Liszt, the 19th-century Hungarian composer and pianist who redefined music superstardom, as explored by Gergely Fazekas from the Liszt Academy. Kid Cudi takes ...

By David Allen Marc-André Hamelin’s recording features fantasias on Italian opera by Franz Liszt and Sigismond Thalberg, who faced off onstage in 1837. The American Symphony Orchestra ...

On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred ...

One day, he placed in front of me the score of Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor—a deceptively thin document of thirty-five pages. By the middle of the second page, I was floundering ...

every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt. Not all of them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine ...

What if I told you that the first “rock star” was piano virtuoso Franz Liszt? According to the BBC, Franz Liszt was music’s first “rock star. " His electrifying stage presence enraptured ...

Franz Liszt’s scintillating journey to the Underworld challenges pianists and thrills audiences. Jeremy Nicholas compares a selection of recordings of this diabolic masterpiece and selects his ...

In the new film “Chopin and Liszt,” the composer’s life and music are interpreted entirely from the perspective of his fellow composer, Franz Liszt. Some of the music excerpts Felder plays ...

Walker is only the seventh honorary doctor in the history of Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music - one of the world's top music schools.