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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Haunted by Wagner

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Haunted by Wagner

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Haunted by Wagner

Donald Macleod explores Franz Liszt’s friendship with Richard Wagner.

Donald Macleod explores Franz Liszt’s strained friendship with Richard Wagner.

Franz Liszt was the most photographed man of the 19th century and the most sculpted man aside from Napoleon - one of the most recognisable figures of his age. Donald Macleod delves into the life and work of the prolific composer and virtuoso pianist through five images of the composer. Liszt's admiration for Wagner forged a friendship between two of the biggest musical personalities of the 19th Century. In Thursday’s episode, Donald examines how this relationship cast a shadow over Liszt's own ability to compose and how personal events helped him to free himself from this shadow, in the process assessing a photograph from 1865 of Liszt, posing with his daughter Cosima and Hans von Bülow.

Richard Wagner (arr. Franz Liszt)
Tannhäuser: Choeur des Pèlerins(excerpt) 
Tanguy de Williencourt, piano

Prometheus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti, conductor

A Faust Symphony:  III. Mephistopheles
Vinson Cole, tenor
Choir and Orchestra of Dresden State Opera
Giuseppi Sinopoli, conductor

In Liebeslust
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Julius Drake, piano

The Legend of St Elizabeth: Chorus of the Angels
Choir of the Ameisenkinder of the Goethe Gymnasium, Weimar
Chorus of Hungarian Radio 
Staatskapelle Weimar  
Carl St. Clair, conductor

At the Grave of Richard Wagner
Kronos Quartet
Marcella DeCray, harp
Aki Takahashi, piano

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Composer of the Week: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

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Donald Macleod delves into Franz Liszt's life and work through five images of the composer

Franz Liszt was one of the most recognisable figures of his age. Donald Macleod delves into his life and work through five images of the composer.

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