The relative paucity of nineteenth-century celebrity photographs may seem bizarre in an age of publicity-image prodigality all the more reason to cherish every one of these 260 photos. This photo-documentary ends with his old age when, better known as the father of Wagner’s wife, a virtuoso of times gone by, he was yet a composer whose B minor sonata had become a monument more lasting than bronze. Both of his parents Adam (1776-1827), an employee in charge of sheep farming of Hungary’s richest and most powerful magnate Prince Miklós Esterházy, and Maria Anna Lager (1788. His native village, Doborján (or Raiding in German), belongs today to Austria. Camille Saint-Sanss and Franz Liszts concertos have often been stated. Franz Liszt was born in Western Hungary on 22 October 1811. Nonetheless, he retains traits of his earlier physical attractiveness and that mesmerising mental edge shining through the features that helped inscribe him on Europe’s consciousness as a cultural hero and musical demi-god. Red Velvet has now released calmato video clips and teaser photos of Irene. The most noticeable change, particularly from a publicity-conscious, air-brush-wielding, 21st-century point of view, is the growth of the warts on his face (above), which became ever more child- and adult-repulsive as the years rolled by, but which were never disguised in the photographs. In late middle age, he took Holy Orders and appeared thereafter in clerical dress, having become a sort of Weimar “sage” and largely misunderstood avant-garde composer. For the most part, he appears or attempts to appear youthful, especially in the gorgeous PR photographs from the 1840s. Not once do we see him on stage, surrounded by the knicker-throwing teenage girls and groupies we know about from written sources. It has to be said, however, that one is pretty much like the other as one leafs from one clutch to the next, and, although Burger is to be congratulated on his detective work in terms of dates and identifications, the images are often of the sanitised, press-pack variety: Liszt in right-hand profile, in stylish pose. Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of a school in 1835 for the education of musicians in orchestral instruments.It was his student Carl Müllerhartung who realized Liszts dream, founding the university on 24 June 1872. Ernst Burger has spent four decades collecting these sepia images, most of which appear here for the first time. Why would anyone want to look at 260 carte-de-visite photographs of the pianist and composer Franz Liszt? Taken from his early middle age in 1843, around the time of the birth of photography itself, until his death in 1886, they are a visual record of the man who, by anyone’s reckoning, was one of the greatest luminaries of Romanticism-there can hardly be a single artist in any medium of his period or since whose work, image, and personality were so widely known.
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