Book contents
- Liszt in Context
- Composers in Context
- Liszt in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I People and Places
- Chapter 1 Family Background
- Chapter 2 Liszt’s Teachers
- Chapter 3 Paris
- Chapter 4 Italy
- Chapter 5 Liszt and Wagner
- Chapter 6 The New German School
- Chapter 7 Weimar
- Chapter 8 Liszt and His Contemporaries
- Chapter 9 Liszt in Hungary
- Part II Society, Thought and Culture
- Part III Performance and Composition
- Part IV Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 2 - Liszt’s Teachers
from Part I - People and Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2021
- Liszt in Context
- Composers in Context
- Liszt in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I People and Places
- Chapter 1 Family Background
- Chapter 2 Liszt’s Teachers
- Chapter 3 Paris
- Chapter 4 Italy
- Chapter 5 Liszt and Wagner
- Chapter 6 The New German School
- Chapter 7 Weimar
- Chapter 8 Liszt and His Contemporaries
- Chapter 9 Liszt in Hungary
- Part II Society, Thought and Culture
- Part III Performance and Composition
- Part IV Reception and Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Liszt’s musical education was, in one respect, commonplace. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Habsburg Empire’s gifted youngsters typically began instruction with their fathers or close relatives, who ranged in expertise from amateurs to professional court or church musicians. Exceptional talent warranted engaging recognised pedagogues or cultivating special opportunities, often in Vienna, where a conservatory that opened as a singing school in 1817 developed no instrumental curricula until 1827. This pattern governed the training of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and many contemporaries. Liszt likewise studied first with his father, Adam Liszt, in Raiding, then with Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri in Vienna and finally with Ferdinando Paer and Antoine Reicha in Paris, all between 1817 and 1826.
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- Liszt in Context , pp. 10 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021