The diaries of August G”llerich, secretary and student of Franz Liszt, provide a first-hand account of the Master's approach to piano teaching, his preferences and prejudices both musical and social,
Liszt's career at the centre of the Romantic Movement encompassed the legendary virtuoso tours, the composition and transriptions which revolutionized the possibilities of the instrument, his importan
Arguably the greatest of all piano virtuosi, Liszt was one of the few composers of his day who had the technique to perform his own compositions. A child prodigy pianist who could read music before he