After the appearance of the violin
virtuoso Paganini, he resolved to attain the highest development of
his musical genius and to become so world-renowned as none has been
before him, and in this was successful. He has not only maintained his
standing as the greatest master of modern piano virtuosos, but has had
the greatest influence on his followers and scholars, Taussig, v.
Bulow, Mr. and Mme. Bronsart, Menter, and other younger and older
pianists who have had the benefits of his instruction for a greater or
less length of time, so that it can be justly claimed that the
majority of our present virtuosos owe their success and fame directly
or indirectly to the abilities of Liszt.
Liszt is endowed with that great gift of treating every individual in
the manner most favorable to the development of its traces of artistic
ability and desires, and this accounts for his wonderful results as
instructor and master.
[Illustration: FRANZ LISZT.]
But no picture of Liszt would be perfect without a _resume_ or
recapitulation of his compositions.
After a most perfect transposition and preparation of numerous works
of Beethoven, Schubert, and Berlioz, and after making their
compositions popular and introducing numerous valuable novelties in
the art of playing piano, he produced his "Symphonische Dichtungen"
(Symphonic Poems).
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