Towards the end of 1823 or early 1824, Liszt's first composition to be published, his Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli (now S. 147), appeared as Variation 24 in Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. At the end of May 1823, the family went to Vienna again.

At the end of April 1823, the family returned to Hungary for the last time. Adam Liszt therefore took his leave of the Prince's services. In spring 1823, when his one-year leave of absence came to an end, Adam Liszt asked Prince Esterházy in vain for two more years. He was greeted in Austrian and Hungarian aristocratic circles and also met Beethoven and Schubert.

Liszt's public debut in Vienna on December 1, 1822, at a concert at the 'Landständischer Saal', was a great success. He also received lessons in composition from Ferdinando Paer and Antonio Salieri, who was then the music director of the Viennese court. There Liszt received piano lessons from Carl Czerny, who in his own youth had been a student of Beethoven and Hummel. After the concerts, a group of wealthy sponsors offered to finance Franz's musical education in Vienna. He appeared in concerts at Sopron and Pressburg (Hungarian: Pozsony, present-day Bratislava, Slovakia) in October and November 1820 at age 9.

Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began composing in an elementary manner when he was eight. At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing. He had been in the service of Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy and knew Haydn, Hummel and Beethoven personally. Liszt's father played the piano, violin, cello and guitar. įranz Liszt was born to Anna Liszt (née Maria Anna Lager) and Adam Liszt on October 22, 1811, in the village of Doborján (German: Raiding) in Sopron County, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. Some of his most notable musical 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. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated many 20th-century ideas and trends. Īs a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School ( Neudeutsche Schule). He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. Franz Liszt ( German pronunciation: Hungarian: Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc, pronounced October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.

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