Word: herze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
...great night, the glittering audience found six pianos on the stage. First Liszt, nostrils quivering and long locks tossing,* thundered and rippled an introduction and the theme from I Puritani. Then the pianistically mannered Thalberg played his variation; Liszt provided a transition to the offering of Pixis; Herz came next, then Czerny, whose knuckle-cracking exercises have been the nemesis of piano students for the last hundred years. Liszt, from his piano, interjected a Fuocoso molto energico; the slender Chopin added an exquisite largo. At last, in his finale, Liszt wittily and skillfully parodied the styles of the others-except...