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Liszt was the son of a steward in the service of the Esterházy family, patrons of Haydn. He was born in 1811 at Raiding in Hungary and moved as a child to Vienna, where he took piano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from Salieri.
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On September 20, 1823, the Liszt family left Vienna, travelling to Paris. For the purpose of earning money for him and his parents' living, Liszt gave concerts in Munich, Augsburg, Stuttgart and Strasbourg. In Munich, he was compared and equalled with the child Mozart, although four years older than his model.[27] On December 11, 1823, the family arrived in Paris. The next day, Adam Liszt together with his son went to the Conservatoire, hoping the child prodigy would be accepted as student. But the director Cherubini told them that - according to a new rule - only French persons were allowed to take part in a piano class. As consequence, Liszt's only piano teacher, in very despotic manners, was now his father.
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Liszt [N]ow earned his living mainly as a piano teacher, and in 1828 he fell in love with one of his pupils. When her father insisted that the attachment be broken off, Liszt again became extremely ill; he was considered so close to death that his obituary appeared in a Paris newspaper. After his illness he underwent a long period of depression and doubt about his career. For more than a year he did not touch the piano and was dissuaded from joining the priesthood only through the efforts of his mother. He experienced much religious pessimism. During this period Liszt took an active dislike to the career of a virtuoso.
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Liszt was born on Oct. 22, 1811, in the village of Raiding, near Sopron. He studied the piano first with his father, then with the Austrian pianist Carl Czerny in Vienna, where he ... studied theory with the Italian composer Antonio Salieri. In 1823 he moved with his parents to Paris, where he subsequently established himself as a pianist. Meanwhile, he took composition lessons from the Italian opera composer Ferdinando Paër (1771–1839) and the Czech-French composer and theorist Anton Reicha (1770–1836).
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Liszt was taught the piano by his father and later by Carl Czerny in Vienna, where he made his debut establishing himself as a remarkable concert pianist by age 12. In Paris he studied theory and composition, then travelled widely in Europe, writing the opera Don Sanche in Paris. There, he ... met Chopin and Berlioz.
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For the next eight years Liszt traveled all over Europe, giving concerts in countries as far apart as Ireland, Portugal, Turkey, and Russia. He continued to spend his summer holidays with Madame d'Agoult and the children on the island of Nonnenwerth in the Rhine River until 1844; then they finally parted, and Liszt took the children to Paris. Liszt's brilliance and success were at their peak during these years as a virtuoso. Everywhere he was received with great adulation; gifts and decorations were showered on him, and he had numerous mistresses, including the dancer Lola Montez and Marie Duplessis. Nevertheless, he still continued to compose, writing songs as well as piano works.
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