Virtuoso Pianists During the Romantic Period

1. Review
• What are the different types of
program music?

2. The Virtuoso Pianists

3. Virtuoso
• a person highly skilled in music or
another artistic pursuit.

4. Viruoso Pianists
(2 Greatest Piano Composers)
• FREDERICH FRANCOIS
CHOPIN
• FRANZ LISZT

5. • POLISH COMPOSER
• AS A YOUNG CHILD, HE OFTEN LISTEN TO
HIS SISTER PLAYING THE PIANO
FREDERICH
FRANCOIS CHOPIN

6. • AT 7, HE COMPSED HIS FIRST POLONAISE
• AT 8, HE PLAYED AT A PRIVATE CONCERT IN
WARSAW
FREDERICH
FRANCOIS CHOPIN

7. • ZYWNY (pronounced as Zhubne) GAVE HIS
FIRST PIANO LESSON BUT HE LATER ON
SURPASSED THE TALENT OF HIS TEACHER.
• HIS MUSIC IS ROMANTIC AND LYRICAL IN
NATURE.
FREDERICH
FRANCOIS CHOPIN

8. • HE SUFFERED TUBERCULOSIS
• ONE OF HIS MOST POPULAR COMPOSITIONS
IS “REVOLUTIONAR”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpuROwy_
8mg
FREDERICH
FRANCOIS CHOPIN

9. • FROM HUNGARY
• SON OF A GOOD ARTIST
FRANZ LISZT

10. • HIS FATHER WAS HIS INSPIRATION
• AT 6, HE DEVELOPED HIS INTEREST IN
PIANO
• AT 8, HE STARTED COMPOSING MUSIC
FRANZ LISZT

11. • INSPIRED BY HIS TALENT, A GROUP OF
WEALTHY SPONSORS OFFERED TO FINANCE
HIS MUSICAL EDUCATION
FRANZ LISZT

12. • HE TOOK PIANO LESSONS FRON LEGENDS
BEETHOVEN AND HUMMEL WHILE
ANTONIO SALIERI HELPED HIM MASTER HIS
COMPOSING SKILLS.
FRANZ LISZT

13. • HE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PIANO
PLAYERS WHO HAD EVER LIVED.
• KNOWN AS THE “ORIGINATOR OF THE
SOLO PIANO RECITAL”
FRANZ LISZT

14. • ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS IS
“LIEBESTRAUME (pronounced as lii bes
trawm)” WHICH MEANS DREAMS AND LOVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpOtuoHL4
5Y
FRANZ LISZT

15. DIFFERENCES
CHOPIN LISZT
• Polish
• wrote most of his music
for the piano
• How every dramatic, his
music still feels human
• Hungarian
• very much an orchestral
composer
• his music was more of a
story telling