Liszt’s Piano Concerto 1

Music Appreciation
Written By Edward Wolfe

Triangle

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a virtuoso Hungarian pianist, considered in the 1840s to be the greatest pianist of all times. He, like Berlioz, was a composer and conductor. Liszt’s forward-looking music put him on the opposite side of the aesthetic aisle from Brahms. His Piano Concerto No. 1, written over a 26-year period, premiered in 1855. Liszt was at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducted the orchestra.

It consists of four relatively short movements in the pattern fast-slow-moderately fast-fast.

Allegro maestoso

Quasi adagio

Allegretto vivace

Allegro marziale animato

They follow one another without break. The third movement is famous among classical musicians because it prominently features the triangle!

The recording below is performed by Sviatoslav Richter, piano; London Symphony Orchestra; Kirill Kondrashin, conducting; Philips 446 200-2

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Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

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