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- DictionaryBrahms and Liszt/brɑːmzən(d)ˈlɪst/
adjective
- 1. drunk. informal British
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Jun 12, 2017 · In Cockney rhyming slang, being "Brahms and Liszt" means being tipsy. But during the latter half of the 19th century, for many passionate music lovers, the phrase "Brahms and Liszt" signified opposite—and mutually exclusive—tastes in contemporary music.
Brahms's personal experience with Liszt had been limited to a single visit to Weimar in 1853, when he presented some of his compositions to a group that included Liszt, Peter Cornelius and Joachim Raff. After Liszt played some of Brahms's work, he performed his own B-minor Piano Sonata.
The phrase comes from rhyming slang in which "Brahms and Liszt" rhymes with "pissed" (drunk). Primarily heard in UK. Do you remember last night at the pub at all, or were you completely Brahms and Liszt?
Cockney rhyming slang for pissed.
Oct 1, 2020 · Introduction: Virtuosity and Liszt; Part One Liszt, Virtuosity, and Performance; 1 Après une Lecture de Czerny? Liszt’s Creative Virtuosity; 2 Transforming Virtuosity: Liszt and Nineteenth-Century Pianos; 3 Spirit and Mechanism: Liszt’s Early Piano Technique and Teaching; 4 Paths through the Lisztian Ossia
Brahms and Liszt typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. Brahms and Liszt is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English.
Jun 27, 2024 · While Liszt's early model, the Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini, may have been the first instrumentalist to define himself principally by virtuosity, Liszt transformed it into a revolutionary musical force, one that pushed the piano aesthetic to the limits of sound and poetic meaning.
