Back November 19th, 2013

Franz Liszt was one of the most renowned composers and pianists of the 19th century; and he is one of the most famous Hungarians as well. But foreign tourists know him not only by his works, since he is the eponym of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, home for classical musical concerts and education; and of the airport of Budapest as well.
Franz (Ferenc) Liszt was born in 1811 in Raiding, a then Hungarian, now Austrian town, his father was Prince Esterházy’s clerk. His musical talent revealed itself quite early; he already gave concerts at the age of 9, and at the age of 11 he had a concert in Vienna, where his talent caught even Beethoven’s attention. He moved to Paris with his father, and later he studied in Vienna. He gave concerts in London, France and Switzerland. In 1827 he moved to Paris again, where he became the center of the social life. He met Chopin and Berlioz, whom he learned a lot from. In the 1830s he travelled around Europe giving concerts. From 1835 he was a professor at the music academy of Geneva.
He Was One of the Most Productive Composers of All Time
In the 1840s he worked in Weimar, Germany, as a composer of the court theatre. In his last years he travelled from Budapest to Rome and Weimar, and worked as a professor in the newly founded centre of the Hungarian music life, the Academy of Music, later named after him. Ha was one of the most productive composers of all time: he composed not less than 1400 works in total, mostly symphonies, symphonic poems, piano works and organ works; which are still played at concerts around the world. Liszt died in 1886 in Weimar. Besides the Academy of Music several public places and buildings wear his name, also a crater on Mercury and a minor planet, and since 2011 the Ferihegy Airport as well. He has statues erected in Hungary, Weimar and Bratislava.
The Franz Liszt Academy of Music
The Franz Liszt Academy of Music (the former Academy of Music) was opened in 1875 in the apartment of Liszt in a house at the banks of the Danube, and he was made its president by the parliament. He also worked there as a piano professor. The current building on Andrássy út was built in 1877-79. Today 88 foreign students study here, including 35 from Japan. The building was given its current name in 1925.
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