Cuban-born classical pianists include many who have recorded with the world's greatest symphonies, including Jorge Bolet ( friend of Rachmaninoff and Liszt specialist ), Horacio Gutiérrez ( former Tchaikovsky Competition silver medalist ), and prize-winning pianist and owner of the " Elan " classical CD company, Santiago Rodriguez, a Russian-music specialist.

Bolet provided the piano soundtrack for the 1960 biopic, Song Without End, which starred Dirk Bogarde as the legendary 19th-century piano virtuoso, Franz Liszt.

Bolet is particularly well remembered for his performances and recordings of large-scale Romantic music, particularly works by Franz Liszt, César Franck, and Frédéric Chopin.

* Liszt, GREAT PIANISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY VOLUME 11: JORGE BOLET II, Mephisto Waltz No. 1 ; Venezia e Napoli ; Funérailles ; Liebestraum No. 3 ; La Leggierezza ; La Campanella ; Sonetto 104 del Petrarca ; Harmonies du soir ; Gnomenreignen ; Au bord d ' une source ; Consolation No. 3 ; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 ; Ricordanza ; Réminiscences de Norma ( Live ), Jorge Bolet, Philips 456 814-2 CD in 1978-88 for DECCA

* Liszt, Various works, Jorge Bolet RCA 63748-2 CD

* Liszt, Franz, Bolet Rediscovered: Liszt Recital, Jorge Bolet, RCA 63748, 04 / 03 / 2001

* Jorge Bolet Liszt Masterclass

This led to an RCA recording of Alkan's music which was met with critical raves, and then a three-concert Liszt Cycle in New York and London, among many other performances.

She has also recorded the Liszt Sonata ( for RCA ) and discs of various works by Chopin ( for Atma Classique ).

Wild recorded for several labels, including RCA Records, where he recorded an album of Liszt and a collection of music by George Gershwin including " Rhapsody in Blue ," " Cuban Overure ," " Concerto in F ," and " I Got Rhythm Variations ," all with the Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler.

In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality, down to demands or limitations set by the studio or their scripts: The Angel Wore Red ( 1960 ), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War ; Song Without End ( 1960 ), as Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor ( who died during shooting ), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, the actor's only disappointing foray into Hollywood ; the campy The Singer Not the Song ( 1961 ), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest ; H. M. S.

Schubert, Die Forelle and Ständchen von Shakespeare ; Chopin, Meine Freuden and Mädchens Wunsch ; Schumann, Widmung and Frühlingsnacht ; Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3 ; Donizetti, Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor Great Pianists, Vol.

* " Liebestraum " ( Liszt )

Liszt called each of the three pieces Liebesträume ; but, often they are referred to incorrectly in the singular as Liebestraum ( especially No. 3, the most famous of the three ).

Liebestraum No. 3 is the last of the three that Liszt wrote, and the most popular, and can be considered as split into three sections, each divided by a fast cadenza requiring dexterous finger work and a very high degree of technical ability.

* Franz Liszt – Six Grandes Études de Paganini, S. 141 for solo piano ( 1851 ) ( virtuoso arrangements of 5 caprices, including the 24th, and La Campanella from Violin Concerto No. 2 )

Borodin's fame outside the Russian Empire was made possible during his lifetime by Franz Liszt, who arranged a performance of the Symphony No. 1 in Germany in 1880, and by the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau in Belgium and France.

* Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 ( abbreviated to fit it on two sides of a 78 record )

Last bars of Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 2 ( Liszt ) | Transcendental Étude No. 2: one of the most difficult of Liszt's études, this is a study in passages for alternating and overlapping hands.

Sonata 15 is famous for one of its themes, which matches the theme of Paganini's Caprice No. 24 almost exactly ; it is possible that Paganini was inspired by Biber, just as Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninov were later inspired by Paganini's Caprice.

* Franz Liszt gives the first performance of his Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Hector Berlioz.

* Franz Liszt composed a piece called " Tarantella, Venezia e Napoli " ( No. 3 from Années de pèlerinage, 2nd Year: Italy ), which is in a rapid tempo also in 6 / 8 time.

* Grieg: Piano Concerto • Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 ( 1991 ) Virgin Classics 0777 7596132 4

* Grieg: Piano Concerto • Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 ( 2002 ) EMI Records Ltd 7243 5 61996 2 0

Liszt ); Waltz No. 14 in E minor Op.

Liszt also arranged No. 12 ( S. 379a ) and No. 9 ( S. 379 ) for piano, violin and cello.

In 1847, Franz Liszt set Freiligrath's poem " O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst " to music — the song was later arranged by Liszt for solo piano as his " Liebestraume No. 3 ," which subsequently became one of his most famous piano pieces.

17 and five Etudes d ’ execution transcendante by Liszt ; Schumann ’ s Kreisleriana and the Bach-Busoni Chaconne ; Bach-Busoni Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, Glinka-Balakirev The Lark and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition ; Schumann ’ s Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor and Carnaval ; and an all-Brahms disc including Sonata No. 3 in F Minor and five Hungarian dances.

116, Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 ( Deutsche Grammophon ) and Haydn Sonata No. 30 in A major, Sonata No. 52 in E flat major, and Schubert Sonata in A minor D784 ( Sony ).

* 1930 – Cosima Wagner, Hungarian daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner ( b. 1837 )

Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt were among the most famous of his pupils.

His teaching of budding young musicians continued, and among his pupils in composition ( usually vocal ) were Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and many other luminaries of the early Romantic period.

From 1899 to 1903, Bartók studied piano under István Thomán, a former student of Franz Liszt, and composition under János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest.

Nationalist composers emerged in Central Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain and Britain: the music of Dvorak, Smetana, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Liszt, de Falla, Wagner, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Bartók and many others drew upon folk melodies.

He also takes forward the exotic ‘ gypsy ’ style of Liszt and Brahms.

They also underpin the fact that Rossini himself was an outstanding pianist whose playing attracted high praise from people such as Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, Camille Saint-Saëns and Louis Diémer.

Some strains in Aida suggest at least a superficial familiarity with the works of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, whom Franz Liszt, after his tour of the Russian Empire as a pianist, popularized in Western Europe.

Franz Liszt was seminal in finding uses for the harp in his orchestral music, and Mendelssohn and Schubert used it in theatrical music or oratorios.

Some important precursors of musical impressionism include works by Chopin, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Chabrier, and Grieg.

In 1880, he went to Budapest to study with Franz Liszt, only to find out that Liszt was in Weimar, Germany.

He continued composing in traditional styles ranging from Rameau, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt until the mid-1880s.

On this tour he met Joseph Joachim at Hanover, and went on to the Court of Weimar where he met Franz Liszt, Peter Cornelius, and Joachim Raff.

According to several witnesses of Brahms's meeting with Liszt ( at which Liszt performed Brahms's Scherzo, Op.

His works were labelled old-fashioned by the ' New German School ' whose principal figures included Liszt and Richard Wagner.

Brahms admired some of Wagner's music and admired Liszt as a great pianist, but the conflict between the two schools, known as the War of the Romantics, soon embroiled all of musical Europe.

Famous visitors to Luxembourg in the 18th and 19th centuries included the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writers Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, the composer Franz Liszt, and the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner.

Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.

By the 1820s, the center of innovation had shifted to Paris, where the Pleyel firm manufactured pianos used by Frédéric Chopin and the Érard firm manufactured those used by Franz Liszt.

This facilitated rapid playing of repeated notes, and this musical device was pioneered by Liszt.

Even the music of the Romantic movement, including Liszt, Chopin, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, was written for pianos substantially different from modern pianos.