Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
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Born in Hungary in 1811, Franz Liszt
Born in Hungary in 1811, Franz Liszt was the Romantic era's supreme virtuoso pianist and a composer of far-reaching influence. His concert tours across Europe in the 1830s and 1840s sparked Lisztomania, the first instance of mass celebrity in music history. He invented the symphonic poem, pioneered thematic transformation, and in his experimental late works anticipated atonality. As a teacher, he created the masterclass format and trained hundreds of pianists.
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Born in Hungary in 1811, Franz Liszt's Other Quotes
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Fate is a natural order of all things, following one upon another from eternity, and their intertwining is inviolable.
-- Chrysippus of Soli
It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.
-- Plotinus
Character is destiny.
-- Heraclitus
Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.
-- Democritus
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
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