From practice rooms to concert halls, Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes present pianists with musical and technical hurdles that result in magical performances. Xiangyu Zhao is a composer, pianist ...

PARIS.- With a growth of more than 4 percent to 13,000 visitors in 6 days, the 26th Salon du Dessin proved to be a great success.

Tomorrow is the 200th birthday of composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Morning Edition's music commentator Miles Hoffman thinks there are plenty of reasons to celebrate. "This is a man who lived an ...

In this vast, single-movement composition, Franz Liszt achieved a synthesis of symphonic and sonata forms that has never been surpassed for its cogency, scope and imagination. He managed this in a ...

Wednesday afternoon at the Kravis Center was an afternoon of two musical icons: pianist Andre Watts and composer Franz Liszt. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Liszt, and Watts, ...

For Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, death never took a holiday. Just consider the titles of his music: Funerals, Thoughts on Death, Dante Sonata, the "Dante" Symphony and, when the Wilmington Symphony ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

The rakish composer is often considered vulgar – but this is precisely what makes him so irresistible Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: ...