Posted on 12/25/2015 12:23:55 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Jeffrey Wagner, Piano
1. Psallite - Old Christmas Song
2. O Holy Night
3. The Sheperds at the Manger
4. Adeste Fidelis - The March of the Three Kings
Winter scene photographed in Warren Park, Chicago
Recorded in the Jim Fellows Center for Creative Media, Park Ridge, Illinois, and published here with the permission of Archbury Classics Recording Company.
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Franz Liszt (German: [fÊantÍ¡s lɪst]; Hungarian Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc (Hungarian pronunciation: [Ëlist ËfÉrÉntÍ¡s]);[n 1] (October 22, 1811 â July 31, 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian[1][2][3] composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, philanthropist and Franciscan tertiary.
Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered to be the greatest pianist of all time, although Liszt stated that Charles-Valentin Alkan had superior technique to his own. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a benefactor to other composers, including Frederic Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin.[4]
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School (Neudeutsche Schule). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form, and making radical departures in harmony.[5] He also played an important role in popularizing a wide array of music by transcribing it for piano.
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