Franz Liszt - Liszt As Pianist

Liszt As Pianist

Liszt was viewed by his contemporaries as the greatest virtuoso of his time (although Liszt stated that Charles-Valentin Alkan undoubtedly had a technical facility superior to his own), and in the 1840s he was considered by some to be perhaps the greatest pianist of all time.

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