200th birthday of Franz Liszt marked in Baku
Baku, February 28 (AZERTAC). A 200th birthday of famous Hungarian composer Franz Liszt was marked in Baku at Muslim Magomayev Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall.
The Hungarian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Zsolt Chutora addressing the event briefed the participants on Franz Liszt`s life and creative activity.
The music party featured the Azerbaijan State Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Prof. Rauf Abdullayev.
Franz Liszt was a 19th century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. He became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and perhaps the greatest pianist of all time. He was also an important and influential composer, a notable piano teacher, a conductor who contributed significantly to the modern development of the art, and a benefactor to other composers and performers, notably Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edward Grieg and Alexander Borodin.
As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work, in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20-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.
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