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Franz Liszt
October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886
Nationality: Hungarian
Category: Composer
Subcategory: Hungarian Composer

The public is always good.

   

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

   

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

   

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

   

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

   

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

   

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

   

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

   

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