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fact that the composer and conductor Franz Liszt was above all a gifted pianist, is not a secret: he was renowned for his incredible piano playing and trained his fingers every day at least five hours. If grad no piano was available, he used a specially for this purpose produced silent Tatstatur he always had it.
addition to his musical genius, he was also not a dud in terms of degree of PR: he knew his own magnificent appearance with dazzling stories to market extravagant dress and eccentric gestures. His famous look to the heavens before he began to play a piece, he was also an awareness of how a variety of other gestures: for example, should be aloud to him in a piano concert hands - when you grad Send break and had the orchestra played - before each first Hover over the keys to dry before you start to play. Or for a quiet Fold the left hands like a prayer. This he preached to his students and underscored his lectures always: "People do not come to hear us, they want to hear us,"
But the most effective PR stunt Liszt, the fact have been that the then often with a steel frame equipped wing his impressive playing grown and not as a rule his concerts over. Therefore, he set up on the stage are two. So had the concert not long be interrupted and he was able to destroy the keys and pages Just change the instrument. This made a lasting impression on the crowd of the 19 Century. So the Princess Metternich said after a concert: "When Prince Eugene defeated the Turks, collapsed the Muselmanenreich. This time it was Franz Liszt, and the kingdom, which he broke, was made of wood and strings. You feel after such a concert dismembered like "And Clara Wieck (later Schuhmann) said in 1838 about him after he was first seen playing". [The fact that he is a] [was] turbulent, choleric demagogue who demands everything everything .... And it is the most stable structure of his piano because he is quite capable of such an evening to carry into the underworld. "
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