), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).

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.

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.

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

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.

The first production of Lohengrin was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner.

Liszt chose the date in honour of Weimar's most famous citizen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749.

Classical pianist and composer Franz Liszt was quoted as saying " A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world ".

In 1861 he had already made the acquaintance of Franz Liszt who, like Bruckner, had a strong, Catholic religious faith and who first and foremost was a harmonic innovator, initiating the new German school together with Wagner.

His symphonies deliberately followed a pattern, each one building on the achievements of its predecessors .... His melodic and harmonic style changed little, and it had as much of Schubert in it as of Wagner .... His technique in the development and transformation of themes, learnt from Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner, was unsurpassed, and he was almost the equal of Brahms in the art of melodic variation.

Weber's shorter piano pieces, such as the Invitation to the Dance, was later orchestrated by Berlioz, while his Polacca Brillante was later set for piano and orchestra by Liszt.

His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and many others.

Berlioz met Franz Liszt who was also attending the concert.

On Berlioz's return to Paris, a concert including Symphonie fantastique ( which had been extensively revised in Italy ) and Le retour à la vie was performed, with among others in attendance: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin and Harriet Smithson.

In 1852, Liszt revived Benvenuto Cellini in what was to become the " Weimar version " of the opera, containing modifications made with the approval of Berlioz.

He was considered extremely progressive for his day, and he, Wagner, and Liszt have been called the " Great Trinity of Progress " of 19th century Romanticism.

" As Wagner here implies, Berlioz himself was indifferent to the idea of what was called " la musique du passé " ( music of the past ), and clearly influenced both Liszt and Wagner ( and other forward-looking composers ) although he increasingly began to dislike many of their works.

Franz Liszt ( 1811 – 1886 ) was an enthusiastic supporter of Samson et Dalila and was instrumental in arranging the first production in Weimar.

Robert Schumann was both an enthusiastic admirer and occasional critic of Liszt and Wagner.

Schumann maintained exceptionally enthusiastic and artistically fruitful friendships with the emerging vanguard of radical romantics — Liszt in particular — as well as with musical conservatives such as Mendelssohn and Gade.

However, after Schumann sold the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik to Franz Brendel it became an enthusiastic supporter of Liszt and his circle.

At some point the pianist-composer Ferruccio Busoni, who has been described as " probably the most open and enthusiastic Liszt exponent in the early twentieth century ," became aware of the unpublished manuscript and prepared a performing version which he first played in 1911 in Berlin.

The technique required to play them was extremely novel at the time of their publication, and the first performer who succeeded at mastering these pieces was the renowned virtuoso composer, Franz Liszt ( to whom Chopin's Op.

At this point in his life, Liszt ’ s career as a traveling virtuoso had almost entirely subsided, as he had been influenced towards leading the life of a composer rather than a performer by Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein almost five years earlier .< ref > Walker, Alan et al.

Franz Liszt invited him to appear as a guest performer at one of his recitals ; stunned by what the boy could do on a borrowed cello, Liszt presented him with a superb new instrument.

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

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.

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

Wagner wrote of his preoccupations with Schopenhauer and Tristan in a letter to Franz Liszt ( December 16, 1854 ): Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion.

Bruckner is greeted by ( from left to right ): Franz Liszt | Liszt, Richard Wagner | Wagner, Franz Schubert | Schubert, Robert Schumann | Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber | Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck | Gluck, Joseph Haydn | Haydn, George Frideric Handel | Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach | Bach.

Both Liszt and Wagner are buried in Bayreuth ; however Wagner did not die there.

Competing with the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, Balzac visited her in St. Petersburg in 1843 and impressed himself on her heart.

A brilliant pianist himself, Weber composed four sonatas, two concertos and the Konzertstück ( Concert Piece ) in F minor, which influenced composers such as Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn.

Schnabel himself mentioned that he had played the Liszt Sonata in B minor " very often ", as well as the Liszt E-flat Piano Concerto.

In fact, César Franck had written an orchestral piece based on Hugo's poem Ce qu ' on entend sur la montagne before Liszt did so himself as his first numbered symphonic poem.

Thanks to Busoni, Petri focused on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt, composers that, along with Busoni himself, remained at the centre of his repertoire.

Liszt himself composed a number of études that were more extensive, and even more complex than Chopin's.

In 1852 he moved to Hanover, at the same time dissociating himself from the musical ideals of the ' New German School ' ( Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, and their followers, as defined by journalist Franz Brendel ) and instead making common cause with Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

2, 5, 6, 9, 12, and 14 were arranged for orchestra by Franz Doppler, with revisions by Liszt himself.

Amongst his best-known recordings are the piano concerti of Edvard Grieg and Robert Schumann with conductor Herbert von Karajan ; the Brahms concerti with Leonard Bernstein, the piano concerti of Frédéric Chopin, one recording conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini and a later one conducted by himself at the keyboard ; the Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos of Beethoven under Bernstein ( Zimerman himself led the accompaniment of the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard in Beethoven's First and Second Concertos ); the first and second piano concerti of Rachmaninoff ; the piano concerti of Franz Liszt with Seiji Ozawa, the piano concerti of Maurice Ravel with Pierre Boulez, and solo piano works by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy and Franz Schubert.

Arthur Rubinstein remarked that it would take him " five hundred years to get a mechanism like ", while Ferruccio Busoni considered himself and Godowsky to be the only composers to have made substantial contributions to keyboard writing and performance since Liszt.

On 8 January 1886, in Rome, Vidal and Debussy performed Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony at two pianos for Liszt himself, an after-dinner performance that Liszt apparently slept through.

By 1859 Liszt himself was becoming more interested in writing church music and toeing the conservative lines of the Catholic Church.

Two years later he was already playing his piano concerto on two pianos with Franz Liszt at a matineé before a selected audience invited by Liszt himself.

He went on to study with Liszt for two years, but did not for some time consider himself a Liszt pupil.