How To Use Liszt In A Sentence
- To the comment that the Orientalist composer's intoxicating minor mode—based on what is called the ahava-rabba mode in Hebrew cantillation and klezmer music—is virtually the same as the mode Liszt called the "Hungarian Minor" in his rhapsodies, Mr. Botstein says that "many scholars have pointed out that the same musical gestures end up as ethnic signals for any number of cultures. Go East, Monsieur
- The critic and dictionary-maker, Fétis, declared that the whole affair was simply an advertising scheme of Liszt's. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
- The Liszt, a showpiece in any conductor's hands, but certainly one in Stokowski's hands, could be more demonic, however.
- Technical polish was too often sacrificed to visceral excitement and excessively schmaltzy rubato - in short, the sort of interpretation that suits the image of Liszt the vulgarian. Pianists Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin offer Liszt recitals
- Liszt tells the poet's story with music that is memorably melodious and dramatic; this is one of the highlights among the thirteen.
- If Richter's Brahms is a revelation, then his playing of Liszt is without equal.
- The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
- The present compilation combines aspects of both the flamboyant virtuoso and the profound spiritualist that together formed the personality of Franz Liszt.
- Vilter's economic thoughts were deeply affected by Liszt, a German economist.
- All his life he has remained faithful to his admiration of Liszt -- since 1858, when he dedicated a _Veni Creator_ to "the Abbé Liszt," until 1886, when, a few months after Liszt's death, he dedicated his masterpiece, the _Symphonic avec orgue_, "To the memory of Franz Liszt." [ Musicians of To-Day
