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Liszt: Compositions
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In Ecoutebœuf, Liszt started composing his "Grande Fantaisie de Bravoure sur La Clochette de Paganini" ("Grand Bravura Fantasy on Paganini's La Campanella") on a melody from the rondo finale of Paganini's second violin concerto. The early version of the Clochette-fantasy was not yet completed because Liszt fell ill in Ecoutebœuf.[62] When on November 5, 1834, at a concert of Berlioz, he for the first time played the fantasy, it was a complete fiasco and taken as new proof that Liszt had no talent for composition at all.[63] A shorter piece using the same melody as well as a melody from the finale of Paganini's first concerto was included in the 1838-39 "Etudes d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini" ("Studies of Transcendental Execution after Paganini").
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As usual, Liszt threw original, daring harmony; extreme chromaticism and abundance of dissonance in his compositions. In his old age, Liszt's works were mostly experimental - the harmonies were considered as impressionistic; and they are almost incomprehensible and rarely performed in public today.
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Tours and many performances generated amazement and praise for the young Liszt by audiences, musicians and Kings. They were especially impressed by his uncanny ability to improvise an original composition from a melody suggested by the audience. Playing on par with established professionals at age 12 Liszt was fast becoming a sensation.
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The choir regularly performs works not only by Liszt but, of course... by Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. And the choir's repertoire now also includes world premiere performances of compositions by Mihály (Brand) Mosonyi and Johann Michael Haydn, discovered in the archives of Budapest by Peter Scholcz, the choir's conductor and an avid hunter of such hidden treasures.
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