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Liszt, Abbé Franz
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Famous pianist, a Hungarian by birth; born with a genius for music, his first efforts at composition were not successful, and it was not till he heard what Paganini made of the violin that he thought what might be made of the piano, and that he devoted himself to the culture of piano music, with the result that he not only became the first pianist himself, but produced a set of compositions that had the effect of raising the art to the highest pitch of perfection; he was a zealous Catholic, and took holy orders, but this did not damp his ardour or weaken his power as a musician; he spent the greater part of his life at Weimar, but he practised his art far and wide, and his last visit to England in 1886, the year on which he died, created quite a flutter in musical circles (1811-1886).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Liszt, Abbé Franz'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/liszt-abbac-franz.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
