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Life Of Chopin, Franz Liszt
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Life Of Chopin, Franz Liszt
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This is The Life Of Chopin by Franz Liszt. A biographical account of the master Pianist and composer Frederick Chopin, his life and works. Originally published in 1852 by friend and equally talented musician Franz Liszt. This is a very nice antique edition of the this work.
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Author - Franz Liszt
Title - Life Of Chopin
Publisher - William Reeves
This edition date - Not Dated
Format - Hardback
Condition - Good condition for its age. Some yellowing of pages and fading to spine.
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1811-1823 in Habsburg
Franz Liszt was born in Western Hungary on 22 October 1811. His native village, Doborján (or Raiding in German), belongs today to Austria. Both of his parents — Adam (1776-1827), an employee in charge of sheep farming of Hungary’s richest and most powerful magnate Prince Miklós Esterházy, and Maria Anna Lager (1788-1866), orphan to an Austrian master baker — were of German origin.
At the time, the whole of Hungary belonged to Austria. Since 1687 and the expulsion of the Turks, the Habsburg Emperors of Austria were the crowned kings of Hungary. The official language was German, and the people of higher classes could not speak Hungarian. Neither did a large number of people who lived like the Liszts on the western border of the country near Austria. The legitimization of the Hungarian language and national culture was to be one of the main aims of the so-called Reform period in the coming decades. It was quite natural, therefore, that Liszt could not speak Hungarian and did not take lessons in this Finno-Ugric language — very different from the Indo-Germanic ones — before he returned to Hungary later in life. Nonetheless, he always declared himself to be a Hungarian, and this was evident for his father and mother as well.