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Stretched canvas, museum-quality resolution, premium matte finish, ready to hang the moment it arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eABOUT FRANZ LISZT (1811–1886)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFranz Liszt was the first musician to make an audience scream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore Liszt, concerts were polite affairs - background music for conversation, applause for technical proficiency. He changed all of that. Performing across Europe in the 1840s, he generated a hysteria that contemporary observers struggled to explain and journalists named Lisztomania. Women fought over his discarded gloves. Men studied his technique and despaired. He was twenty years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe showmanship was real but so was the substance. He expanded the technical possibilities of piano performance beyond anything previously imagined, composed symphonic poems that created an entirely new musical form, and transcribed orchestral works for solo piano with an ingenuity that made the instrument sound like a full ensemble. His harmonic innovations anticipated Wagner, Debussy, and the breakdown of traditional tonality that would define 20th century music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his fifties he took minor holy orders, became Abbé Liszt, and spent his final decades teaching without charge - producing a generation of pianists who carried his influence across Europe. He asked for a simple funeral. The tributes came anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe invented the modern concept of the virtuoso. 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