Dominic Cheli - Liszt: Schubert Transcriptions (2021)

ranz Liszt was born at Raiding in a German-speaking region of Hungary. His father, Adam Liszt, was a steward in the employment of Haydn’s former patrons, the Esterházy Princes, and an amateur cellist. The boy showed early musical talent, and with the support of members of the Hungarian nobility was able to move with his parents to Vienna, where he took piano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from the old Court Composer Antonio Salieri, who had taught Beethoven and Schubert. In 1822 the Liszts moved to Paris, where, as a foreigner, Franz was refused admission to the Conservatoire by Cherubini, but was able to embark on a career as a virtuoso, with the help of the piano manufacturer Erard.
On the death of his father in 1827 Liszt was joined again by his mother in Paris, where he began to teach the piano and to interest himself in the newest literary trends of the day. The appearance of Paganini there in 1831 suggested new possibilities of virtuosity as a pianist, later exemplified in his Paganini Studies. A liaison with a married woman, the Comtesse Marie d’Agoult, a bluestocking on the model of their friend the novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevant), and the subsequent births of three children, involved Liszt in years of travel, from 1839 once more as a virtuoso pianist, a role in which he came to enjoy the wildest adulation of audiences.

Track List:
01. 3 Märsche von Franz Schubert, S. 426: No. 1, Trauermarsch
02. 3 Märsche von Franz Schubert, S. 426: No. 2, Grande marche
03. 3 Märsche von Franz Schubert, S. 426: No. 3, Grande marche caractéristique
04. Mélodies hongroises d'après Franz Schubert, S. 425a: No. 1, Andante
05. Mélodies hongroises d'après Franz Schubert, S. 425a: No. 2, Marcia
06. Mélodies hongroises d'après Franz Schubert, S. 425a: No. 3, Allegretto
07. Soirées de Vienne, S. 427: No. 6 in A Minor (After Schubert's D. 969 & 779) [1869 Version]