![]() His electric guitar turns into a machine gun and he rampages around the city, killing Jews. In case you haven't yet absorbed Ken Russell's silly point that Wagner is Hitler, Wagner is now actually dressed as Hitler. During his funeral, he rises from his swastika-embossed tomb. Wagner is squished beneath his own castle. He died in 1883, six years before Hitler was born. Still, Lisztomania goes a bit far in blaming the existence of Nazism and the rise of Adolf Hitler entirely on Wagner. Liszt's own feelings about Jewish people, while not so actively hateful, weren't exactly friendly either. He was outspokenly anti-semitic, and it is hardly a mitigating factor that many others in the music world at the time also held these obnoxious views to some degree. Wagner was a great composer and a nasty piece of work. A condition one would imagine the makers of this film understood only too well. Wagner's revenge was to tell Nietzsche's doctor that the philosopher's headaches were caused by excessive masturbation. In real life, Nietzsche broke his friendship with Wagner over the religious tone of the composer's opera, Parsifal. It is Rick Wakeman (who himself created the monstrous prog-rock soundtrack), done up as Thor. Like Dr Frankenstein, he has created a monster. Wagner – dressed, in a painful literalisation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, as Superman, complete with red cape – strums an electric guitar and sings about restoring the Teutonic godhead. Since he can't marry Carolyne, Liszt takes religious orders. The pope is a little beardy bloke with a heavy Scouse accent. Liszt and Carolyne try to get married, but the pope is having none of it. ![]() The real Cosima Liszt left her husband for Wagner, though it didn't happen like this and nobody was a vampire. He grows fangs, bites Liszt on the neck, sucks his blood, then snogs his daughter Cosima. Wagner gloats that his music will bring forth "a man of iron, to forge the shattered fragments of this century into a nation of steel". Lisztomania may be the most embarrassing historical film ever made. Or possibly he misheard someone describing Liszt as Europe's biggest pianist. This isn't an attempt at historical accuracy: just an alarming glimpse into director Ken Russell's mind. As his member nears eight feet in length, evil Princess Carolyne prepares a guillotine for it. He develops an erection bigger than himself. ![]() Liszt dons a crinoline and plucks a lyre. In this film, she is a maniacal dominatrix bat-demon with inverted crosses dangling from her nipples. The third and final version of the Transcendental Études was published in 1852 and dedicated to pianist and composer Carl Czerny, Liszt’s piano teacher, who was also a prolific composer of études.In real life, Liszt took up with Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein in 1848. ![]() They cover a wide range of moods and require mastery of a variety of virtuosic techniques. The Transcendental Études are a set of twelve highly varied and technically demanding compositions that pushed contemporary pianos (and pianists!) to the limit. Listen to the Best of Liszt on Apple Musicand Spotify. Scroll down to discover our selection of the best Liszt works featuring ten masterpieces by the great composer. The Piano Sonata In B Minor (1853) is generally acknowledged to be Liszt’s masterpiece and is a model of his technique of thematic transformation, which is also prominent in the symphonic poems. His piano works, including the Études, the Hungarian Rhapsodies, and the Mephisto Waltzes, are brilliant showpieces requiring both technical skill and expressivity. He also composed and performed orchestral music, including symphonic poems. Liszt made superb piano transcriptions of symphonies, operas, and large orchestral works of other composers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, and Wagner. The most decisive influence, however, came from the virtuoso violinist Nicolò Paganini who inspired him to become the greatest pianist of his day and to push piano technique through previously unimagined difficulties to attain new brilliance and sonorities. Liszt was a friend of many important composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Richard Wagner. He is best known for his virtuoso piano compositions which are amongst the most technically challenging in the repertoire. Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and one of the most important composers of the Romantic era.
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