Wednesday 2 November 2016

Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composervirtuoso pianistconductormusic teacherarrangerorganistphilanthropistauthornationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.


Franz Liszt was born to Anna Liszt and Adam Liszt on October 22, 1811, in the village of Doborján in Sopron County, in the Kingdom of Hungary. Liszt's father played the piano, violin, cello and guitar. He had been in the service of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy and knew HaydnHummel and Beethoven personally. At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing and showed an interest in both sacred and Romani music. Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began composing in an elementary manner when he was eight. He appeared in concerts at Sopron and Pressburg  in October and November 1820 at age 9. After the concerts, a group of wealthy sponsors offered to finance Franz's musical education in Vienna.




And that's a few of Liszt's history I copied from Wikipedia (if I copied all of it, it would be so long and boring). Now we're gonna skip to his composition and that's what I like about this part.

Liszt wrote transcriptions for piano of a wide variety of music. Indeed, about half of his composing work (approximately 400 out of 800 items) are arrangements of music by other composers. He also made his own original work, of course. One of his original works is Liebestraume (German from Love Dream). Liebestraume is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850. Liebestraume No. 3 is the last of the three that Liszt wrote, and the most popular. It 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.

This is the first sheet of Liebestraume:

If you could read this piece, maybe you could play it, but it needs some technique, such as high degree hand movement.

Aaaanndddd you could check this really awesome piano play by someone I dont know, but she plays this piece perfectly. And the song is very relaxing (this is my favorite piece).







Question

1. Who is the composer's name?
a. F. F. Chopin
b. Franz Liszt
c. L. v. Beethoven
d. J. S. Bach
e. Mozart

2. What kind of instrument did he play?
a. violin
b. cello
c. guitar
d. piano
e. keyboard

3. What is the meaning of Liebestraume?
a. Love's Joy
b. Love's Sorrow
c. Lovely Rosemary
d. Love Issue
e. Love Dream

4. What is the synonym of the word attentively (in paragraph 2)?
a. considerate
b. attractively
c. beautifully
d. rosemary
e. melancholy

5. What is the meaning of philanthropist in Indonesia?
a. cendekiawan
b. musisi
c. dermawan
d. konduktor
e. penulis