What if I told you that the first “rock star” was piano virtuoso Franz Liszt? According to the BBC, Franz Liszt was music’s first “rock star. " His electrifying stage presence enraptured ...

Tokunaga, 60, played Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella,” a notoriously difficult piece, as the opening act for a concert featuring Fuzjko Hemming, the famed pianist who inspired him to start ...

Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886) composed 13 symphonic poems, largely inspired by literary texts. The composer himself wrote piano ...

Fuzjko Hemming, an acclaimed pianist inextricably linked to Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella,” which shot her to stardom in Japan, died from pancreatic cancer on April 21. She was 92. Hemming ...

Standing at the center of each is the First Piano Concerto of Franz Liszt, with 29-year-old Boston-based pianist George Li as soloist. And flamboyance, thy name is Liszt. The composer was a showy ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra presents music from poetry, and the poetry of music, with “Debussy and Liszt: Lyrical Daydreams,” at 7:30 p.m. on March 28, and 3 p.m. on ...