Portrait of the composer in colored wax. Artist unknown. 19th century

by Franz Liszt

$175 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

The composer is depicted head-and-shoulders in profile, turned left. He wears a black coat and yellow cravat. Image size 95 x 65 mm; overall size 172 x 136 mm. A Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and writer, as a pianist in the first half of the century, Liszt dazzled audiences with his virtuosic displays that stretched the limits of pianistic technique. ... As a conductor in Weimar beginning in 1848, Liszt consciously endeavored to

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