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In The Concert Hall by Theodor Hosemann, 1842, caricaturing Liszt and his fans. Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and the term was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on April 25, 1844, discussing the 1844 Parisian concert season. Lisztomania was characterized by intense levels of hysteria demonstrated by fans, akin to the treatment of ...
Jan 17, 2024 · The meaning behind “Lisztomania” by Phoenix relies on singer Thomas Mars' character in the song, who sounds like the head voice of madness.
Aug 29, 2021 · In this week's video we're taking a closer look at the origins of the word "Lisztomania" and understanding how the word came to be. Do you know how it came t...
Nov 30, 2017 · When the popularity of the British rock band The Beatles started to grow big and fans all over the world gathered around them, a new term was invented to describe this frenzy: Beatlemania. What is more interesting is that the use of the term “mania” to describe the popularity of an artist wasn’t invented in the 1960s, but in fact appeared hundred years earlier.
Feb 29, 2024 · Long before Justin Bieber, Tom Jones, the Beatles or Frank Sinatra, there was Franz Liszt. He was not quite history's First Rock Star. Several before him, including Alessandro Rolla, John Field, Niccolò Paganini and the eighteenth century castrato legend Farinelli, might have laid equal claim to such an honour. But Liszt would certainly take things to a whole new level, lending his name to an astonishing pan-European craze of the 1840s: Lisztomania ...
Abstract. Liszt’s Glanzperiode, when the term ‘Lisztomania’ was coined by Heine, conjures up images of him that have remained most to the fore in popular imagination.A dazzling wizard, a showman and superman of the keyboard who thrilled audiences in musical capitals and far flung regions of Europe and whose works matched the glitter and even the vulgarity of that era of hysterical adulation.
Sep 4, 2023 · Liszt is at once one of the most outwardly recognizable figures in musical history—the flowing shoulder-length hair, the aquiline nose, the eerily long, flexible fingers—and one of the most ...
Jan 27, 2015 · In 1820, at age nine, Franz Liszt performed at his first public concert. Like Mozart, he went on to amaze audiences across Europe with his prodigious talent. His youth and his skill drew many comparisons to Mozart.
Oct 22, 2011 · The classical pianist, who turns 200 today, changed the art of performance forever with his over-the-top concerts, creating a craze that historians have dubbed "Lisztomania."
Jul 20, 2024 · Lisztomania swept across Europe. Despite their obvious sensationalism, Liszt's concerts in the 1840s established the format of our modern-day piano recital. He was the first to play entire programs from memory (not reading from music).
