who else was having one of those days when they want to watch an hour-long documentary about Liszt ✋? just me... ok

@Stamcia

3 жыл бұрын

same here brother :)

@GreenTeaViewer

3 жыл бұрын

that day is most days for me

@s.hawkins3288

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. It's 1:22am for me.

@lolsauce4

3 жыл бұрын

Vibing with this rn

@JoaoMariaNunes

3 жыл бұрын

nahhh, there are more crazies like u...lol... me...

Lesser known than Liszt's genius was his compassion and generosity.

@Qwerty-bu1qv

4 жыл бұрын

This. Liszt sacrificed everything to help Wagner when no one else wanted to. He never charged money for teaching piano and he had hundreds of students.

@stevrgrs

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he was like Robin Hood only with a piano and not a bow :P

@randallhale7775

Жыл бұрын

more like his debauchery

@pineapple7024

Жыл бұрын

@@randallhale7775 Not really. He was very devoted to God, which is why he has so many religious works

@kasajizo8963

Жыл бұрын

@@randallhale7775 is there any evidence for his debauchery though? People like to assume he was a womanizer, because of his superstar image. But it's interesting how he never got an STD, unlike many other composers.

A touching documentary made by people who admire and love Franz Liszt. Thanks for sharing!

@annemarietuyl-koehorst8968

3 жыл бұрын

Heel fijn om te horen en daardoor meer van Liszt te weten en te genieten

@zuhairbakdoud1360

3 жыл бұрын

What language is this?

@stevepotfora7461

2 жыл бұрын

@@zuhairbakdoud1360 It is Dutch. Translation: very nice to hear and therefore to know and enjoy more from Liszt

I'm 57 its 2021 and I have just discovered Liszt, - (how sad) -and I love his music. Great documentary

@auroravuitton90

2 жыл бұрын

Hey at least you did discover him

@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL

Жыл бұрын

I’d say that’s fantastically great! It takes years to get through his catalogue 😎

@Ash1nerTV

Жыл бұрын

You’re lucky you ever found him! Unfortunately, too many people never understand the beauty of classical music throughout their life, and we should be grateful that we ever learn to appreciate it :)

Ceci Lytle is a wonderful educator and performer. UCSD should be proud to have him.

Beethoven & Liszt are the greatest composers to ever live. I LOVE their music oh-so much.

@rawr3122

7 жыл бұрын

Fountain of Fire Chopin composed better piano pieces than the two.

@jasperpabroa4737

5 жыл бұрын

@LAWR how dare you say Beethoven's music for piano is no way near Chopin's? Also composed half of them deaf... You dont know the struggle, to be robbed by something you loved so much especially to be able to hear its the worst for any musician to experience.... But Beethoven fought hard and now he stands as one of the greatest creative man in all ages... That's why his music was Triumphant over Life... Chopin is A God so as Beethoven please have respect dont compare them.... Rachmaninoff said to Tolstoy's remark for his theme on the 5th symphony for piano and voice lyrics by poem by Tolstoy... Tolstoy said its terrible but Rach said" I can accept criticism to my music but not on Beethoven"

@Roice-sq5wj

4 жыл бұрын

@@rawr3122i assume that if anime is the reason to say that you definitely need to bash your head at the piano's octaves and think again, seriously people need to just stop with the biasness towards chopin, it's disgusting! Always compare and compare, not even giving other composers a chance makes me want to shoot myself...and also imma tell you right now, there's no such thing as a better or worst in the whole genre of classical music, it's basically like a big gigantic box with a box inside and another box inside until it gets smaller and smaller to a microscopic size, if you say a piece that this is good, there is a probability something is better than that, if you say that a piece that it is the worst there's also a probability that something is worse than that, please just stop doing that comparing crap, listen to their music, appreciate it and that's it.

@normaljohn6035

2 жыл бұрын

*cough* Chopin *cough*

@superblue3684

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot Chopin!…

Sorry that I did not see this until today. It is interesting that no Hungarian has commented on this unfortunate study. As Hungarian, I resent the minimization of Liszt being a Hungarian. His name, spelled with sz and meaning Flour, proves his origin. Before he died, he came HOME to Budapest and was teaching at the Academy now named after him. My grandmother Francisca and her three sisters all studied piano at the Academiy at the time Liszt was there. He did not teach them, but as young girls, they were in awe of him, even believing the legend that touching his robe improved your piano talent. According to my great aunt Luisa, the four of them were waiting for him to leave the building, sneaking after him they touched his robe. He turned around smiling and said that they better keep practicing rather believing in silly things ( by the way: in Hungarian). The inference that he was impressed and influenced by gypsy music, is the same as for Brahms, with his false believes that Hungarian music is Gypsy music. Kodaly and Bartok has put an end to this notion. His serious compositions, apart from the Rhapsodies, are what has put him on the world repertory and earned him his fame. He WAS Hungarian, wandering and wondering all of us even today.

@sage_silvestris

4 жыл бұрын

Great post! Learning the human side of a historical character. Btw I'm hungarian too.

@James_Bowie

4 жыл бұрын

Regarding the spelling of his surname, we are told that his father was born Adamus List and that in his youth Adam changed his surname "List" to the spelling "Liszt", according to Hungarian pronunciation, and that Franz's great-grandfather Sebastian List was a German who came to Hungary in the early 18th century. I guess birth certificates or baptism registrations would need to be found to verify that.

@peterczipott6854

2 жыл бұрын

Liszt learned a smattering of Hungarian as an adult, beginning no earlier than the late 1830s, when he organized charity concerts to collect funds to alleviate the suffering from the huge floods of 1838 in Budapest and elsewhere in Hungary. The video is correct that he spoke German at home; for most of his life, he was most comfortable speaking French. That said, he considered himself both a proud native son of Hungary and a citizen of the world (or at least, of Europe).

Excellent, excellent biography and an excellent collection of commentator, historians, etc. As a composer I gained real appreciation for the man, his music, and his times. Thank you for posting this.

I adored this documentary, and I appreciated the professor's piano!

Liszt, composer of one of my favorite classical pieces: Totentanz! Great upload!

@alexcarter8807

2 жыл бұрын

Hang around another decade or two, and the warming Earth will provide lots of toten to tanz about!

This is remarkable and to be watched by all. Please do it.

@julianmanjarres1998

6 жыл бұрын

danthecomposer I figured I’d find you here. Haha! Hello :)

Great documentary. Thank you UCSD and Cecil Lytle.

What a fantastic documentary!!!! Thanks!!!

This is such a beautiful and well done documentary. Thank you so much for sharing!

Excellent production, beautifully presented by Cecil Lytle, thank you so much!

An amazing presentation...thank you to all the contributors. I feel enriched on so many levels.

Excellent documentary! I thoughoughly enjoyed it. Thank you all for touching up on Liszt's life.

A very available presentation, that shows the all-encompassing and generous nature of Liszt's personality and also his foreward-looking musical approach and ideas. The program does not contain any penetrating analysis, but it makes an entertaining starting point, that easily will kindle an enthusiasm for Liszt. If I were a music-teacher (I have been teaching history of ideas), I would surely use this program as part of my classes on the romantic composers.

Liszt quote from this video: "A man is not truly complete unless he has seven mistresses... One for the home, One for the heart, One for the brain, One for the household, One for whims and follies, A woman to hate, And a woman he pursues but never catches."

@cbabick

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what the difference is between the one for home and the one for the household.

@sage_silvestris

4 жыл бұрын

Only a man like Liszt had enough money to have dreams like this.

@mjdillaha

3 жыл бұрын

Can anyone tell me where I can find this quote?

Awesome documentary, great professor Lytle.

To "mijnmening 1" and everybody else interested in Liszt: as Christopher Hitchens, the famous English author, journalist, orator put it - the two great achievements of Austria was to convince the world that Hitler was German, and that Beethoven was Viennese.- Now "mijnmening" wants us to believe Liszt was Austrian, too, because he spoke no Hungarian and he was born in Raiding. A bit of history: During many years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, (Habsburg occupation) German was the official language, only the uneducated plebs spoke Hungarian. Liszt was born in Doborján, for centuries a Hungarian settlement, only after WW1 was it given to Austria, together with 2/3 of the country to create Rumania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia. It was a punishment for fighting on the wrong side. Oddly enough, Austria fought on the wrong side, too, but escaped the severe punishment. Liszt was Hungarian as he kept repeating it. He spoke excellent French, contrary what mijnmening says. As a note bene, my own opinion is that comparing composers is silly. In their own way they were all brilliant but for me, none beats Beethoven. And please, do not belittle Prof Lytle piano playing. I wish I could play half as well! Love to everybody.

@markrymanowski719

2 жыл бұрын

The only person not to hear his 9th, and possibly, greatest symphony, was Beethoven himself. We can't help but love him.

This has to be one of the most comprehensive studies of a man's history ,failures and achievements , I was very entertained in the pace and content of this video, I especially loved the parts in this video where Liszt's letters are read over the playing of some of his pieces, and at the same time glorious landscape paintings are shown to bring about a feeling of actually being in that time and place

@pamledford1541

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you S. Weiser for expressing what I felt.

Nicely done guys, really enjoyed that documentary. It drew us in and held our attention the whole time. We watched from start to finish as just general youtube viewers. I wasn't expecting that from a university made video tbh. Good work.

Thank you so much for posting. Wonderfully done.

when i first heard about Liszt , i did InFact envisioned an eccentric With bald head and a dark mustach like dbussy or Leopold godowsky in his prime, and when i finally discovered all of Liszts Production, and read more and more about this seemingy inexhaustiable man i just dropped my jaw,,if godowsky was a state then Liszt was a continent!! Liszt was part of f evrything in tht period...i dont think tht man slept ever...travelling touring teaching he was a musical GOD he motivated like several duzins of other Composers including Our own Edvard Grieg,,if it wasnt for Liszts encouraging and support to Grieg, we might as well never get to listen to his beatiful amoll piano concerto op.16...

@katalinrobin6222

3 жыл бұрын

beautifully put

Liszt's letters are so spectacular that he could have been just as much of an all-time great author as he was a musician.

If I could go back in time and bring back one person. I would never hesitate to bring anyone other then Liszt. It’s so frustrating to miss someone who died long before you were born. The last couple of years Liszt and his music has been inside my head every single day. Don’t know what I would do without him! 🙏🏼✍🏼🎼🎹🌴💕⛪️🏅

How beautiful, thank you !☀️

Again and again i come here to watch this legend.💙💙💙🔥 Lisztomania

@e.l.2734

4 ай бұрын

And here I was expecting to find a cure!

Excellent documentary, thank you.

This was a great watch. Well done. Thanks.

What a beautiful and well researched presentation! ... those who love Liszt will love this.

Thank you for posting it will remain valuable in posterity Merci

When you go to Budapest Liszt is everywhere - they even named the airport after him!

@JLFAN2009

3 ай бұрын

Just as the international airport in Warsaw, Poland is named after Chopin

0:25 After sliced bread of course, The absolute best pianist

Liszt was the original rock star, a tall, blonde, virtuoso pianist who was also a composer, transcriber, teacher, traveler, lover!

@TerryUniGeezerPeterson

2 жыл бұрын

Blonde? Don't think so. Pretty much all of all of the most famous portraits of his heyday depicted him with dark brown hair.

A very insightful and informative documentary! I enjoyed it immensely!

Ahhhh yes Franz Liszt personally one of my favorite composers

One of the best documentaries I've watched. On any subject

Well done! Very good video! As a Hungarian I liked most of it. Few simplicitations, wrong datas and suggestions but in general I think it gave quite a good view on Liszt. Thanks for all involved!

Wonderfully informative and insightful. A delight.

My greatest influence and inspiration beyond all others in music and man.

@djtrendsetta5766

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but was he equally influential to your brother, Modest?

@leo32190

3 жыл бұрын

@@djtrendsetta5766 😂

congratulation!Very nice and interesting documentary!

Excellent video!

Love the video! Thank you!

Thanks for sharing - very interesting !!

I heard Liszt's first piano concerto at the age of 8. This was in 1983, and it was played by Emil Gilels. I became hooked on the music of the Romantic period for life.

Fabulous to discover so much about a fascinating musician

Wonderful documentary. A great hurrah for the creator.

Wow, thank you. Very insightful and wonderful work.

This is a brilliant documentary of the great Franz Liszt. I am a life long devotee of his music and his unique personality and wished more of his music would be performed today.

Anyone interested in Liszt's life should read Alan Walker's excellent 3 volume biography.

If there is any real interest in Franz Liszt, you will not find it here.. it begins and ends with Allan Walker, who spend ten years of pure research from the years 1811 - 1846. That was his first book, of three. There are many very interesting lectures that he has done over the years, also. Very enlightening.

@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL

Жыл бұрын

fffffart

I ADORE Liszt...

Now I know why I relate so much to his music lol. To me, it's just perfect.

This man is one fantastic virtuoso and equally good guy

Great doc!

Amazing documentary! Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

Great documentary, narrated by fine people.

LISZT FERENC igaz magyar🇭🇺 és csodálatos zeneszerző❤🤍💚

We need a new movie on Liszt just a badass.

film merveilleux, merci.

A very carefully crafted documentary where every sentence is worth listenening to.

wonderful documentary

@MiguelSorian0_

2 жыл бұрын

indeed

A lot of thanks !

Очень благодарна за ваш труд. Чудесно! Спасибо.

Very good.

What an excellent biography.

23:37 - "A man is not truly complete, unless he has seven women. One for the home One for the heart One for the brain One for the household One for whims and follies A woman to hate and a woman he pursues ..but never catches" Thank god Liszt never said that today! *lol* For, while a woman would be revered for such a statement in todays world ..a man would be strung up on piano wire. Still, its a fantastic quote ..wether said from a man or a woman's perspective ;-)

@zacharybjurstrom7132

4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t watched this video for months and forgot about it the video. I did remember the quote vaguely though and tried finding where’s it from. Thank you so much for the time stamp!

@torre3964

Жыл бұрын

Only seven?

Excellent story

Nicely narrated, Interesting.

I appreciate this video.

Great documentary, but they haven't spoken about one of Liszt's greatest inspirations: Paganini...

@dankr7009

Жыл бұрын

Lmaooooo

@13:45 awh, yes. I'm reminded of the close relationship between technological innovation and creative debut

Please, what is the title of the very last piece at 1:27:05? Okay, got it! Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Valentina Lisitsa also plays it on her channel.

Why on earth did Hollywood make a movie about Liberace and not about Liszt? Here is my suggestion : director - Martin Scorsese / Leading Part - Michael Fassbender / Pianist (sound & hands!!!) Marc-Andre Hamelin or Arcadi Volodos.

@monicad7597

9 жыл бұрын

omg yes!

@pawelpap9

6 жыл бұрын

Simon M Indeed, I remember seeing it but it was a very long time ago. I was a kid so I was duly impressed by Liszt’s antics.

@pianosenzanima1

6 жыл бұрын

because hollywood is stupid and does not have as a mission any high ideals

@evatoth7482

6 жыл бұрын

Some films have been made in Hungary. I think you can find them here on KZread. I do not know if there is English language version.

@MegaPianogenius

6 жыл бұрын

masterofsynapsis great idea particularly Hamelin and Volodos of whom both I adore There was an old liszt film made though?

In 1947 (or so), a Canadian (Quebec City) «élève» of Nadia Boulanger (living and teaching in Boston at that moment), was engaged to read Latin Poets for a blind old lady of Boston, former Franz Liszt's student in Europa. He said to me interesting «propos» about Liszt's master lessons.

@bethelle9099

3 жыл бұрын

Do tell.........

@peterczipott6854

2 жыл бұрын

Would the blind lady have been Amy Fay, the Bostonian who wrote a perceptive and amusing book about the Liszt master classes?

Very recommendable! Liszt, Lust, Lisztomania!

What is the piece at 43:22? I know it but forgot the name and it is kinda frustrating

What is the title of the first piece played in this documentary?

ive read all the books on the table in front of the narrator.....liszt...or the stamp of liszt will leave a life long impression on you. if you sought it. no matter where your talent lies. i certainly did mine.....through my teacher anthony casario, the pupil of leo orstein.( featured as the film subject of the movie.... don't go gently )

The maps are not contemporary. Surely it may not have been too difficult to find one mod-nineteenth cent.

Ondřej Krátký the first composition is Liszt - orage

Interesting documentary. I always held Niccolò Paganini as the first true 'rock star' (perhaps, behind Mozart). As I thought of Paganini as the start of the 'romantics'.

Yes

Wow! Professor Lytle, I said to my mom, "Hey, it's a black man from Harlem!". How cool is that to see you documenting the career of Franz Liszt who was such an amazing figure in the history of Classical piano music. I always relish to find African Americans who have studied classical music beyond grade 12. Thanks for your work & dedication! Yes, I do mostly think of the upper registers when I think of Liszt, especially when I think of Lieberstrom(?), even though I don't know much about the piece. Although, I heard it had something to do with the constellations. Finally, it is so cool to see the collaboration in this documentary, NYU, Brown Univ, Georgetown Univ, Univ of Cal., etc. The voices of the actors/readers/speech linguists were also great - the North East paired with the German or Russian or ? accents by Ms. Eva were quite delightful! Finally, I also enjoyed the foreign languages accompanied by subtitles. This is an elegantly prepared story, like PBS at it's best! Great work you guys! I think I'll work on La Campanella next; it's such an amazingly sounding piece!

@DJStefandeJong

4 жыл бұрын

I just see a professor playing music, I did not even think twice about his race until I read your comment and could only think the following: If a person of color has this response to a person in color being a professor in music how can you expect a caucasian person to think anything other than the same? Give the right example and keep 'race' out of it (I don't even believe in the whole 'race' word ... we are all of the human race, with subtle differences caused by environmenta differences). Aka, respect and value the man for his knowledge and playing.

@katalinrobin6222

3 жыл бұрын

LIEBESTRAUM

Depues anyone know what organ piece is being played at 1:23:59 ?

@jorgeluismodolell8207

8 жыл бұрын

+Lisandro Gramajo Requiem Sposalizio Nach Dem Gleichnamigen Bilde Raffaels by Liszt :)

Can someone identify the piece at 7:51

They should make a movie about this

I loved this altho the professors reading the quotes was like a super embarrassing version of How I Met Your Mother haha

Nice gesture to respect Lizst and entertain us with a 90 minute documentary about him. But... he never came to USA so interviews with not only specialists in US and adding some input from music professors from his continent/region would have been a good idea.

...No mention of symphonic poems. Odd considering they're not only brilliant, but that he invented them as an orchestral form.

Wow! What a chiseled face!😘

Liszt was also an engineer damn

@University of California Television (UCTV) What's the title of the melody at 17:44?

@Kuasm

7 жыл бұрын

Chopin: Prelude in A major

Well made fruitful docu~~:D

Could someone pls tell me which Piece is played arround 34:51?

@Kuasm

7 жыл бұрын

It's the middle part to Hungarian Rhapsody #2

what is the piece playing at 16 - 18:00. during the Chopin bit

@tomcarterpianist

6 жыл бұрын

Chopin's A major prelude op 28 no 7, one of his simplest and also one of his greatest works.

Wondrous ! xxxxxxx

37:48 - "Why is it not "dans la Solitude" ?