Word: liszt
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...days of Strauss waltzes and the musical "grand manner." every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt...
...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...
...excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that...
Last week in Manhattan, his adopted home since Hitler occupied his beloved Vienna, death came at 83 to Moriz Rosenthal, last of the famous pupils of Liszt...
...simply repeated old warhorses. His huge repertoire includes all the piano works of Bach, all of Mozart's solo pieces and 21 piano concertos, all of Beethoven's sonatas and five piano concertos, and Schubert's sonatas. Schumann and Debussy are still to go, but not Liszt. Says he: "There is not enough good Liszt . . . too many things...