Tarantella franz liszt biography

Franz Liszt was a famed composer who broadened the boundaries of piano technique in the nineteenth century.
Tarantella, couple folk dance of Italy characterized by light, quick steps and teasing, flirtatious behaviour between partners.
The Tarantella (here) is based on themes of Guillaume-Louis Cottrau, a French composer who lived and worked in Naples.

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EVELYN MO
United States | Age 16

2015 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival
June 21–28, 2015 I TCU
Fort Worth, TX, USA

Program:
MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses, op. 54
CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, op. 52
LIEBERMANN Gargoyles, op. 29: I. Presto
LISZT Concert Paraphrase on Waltz from Gounod’s Faust

Evelyn Mo made her orchestra debut at age 13 with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, and has since performed with the Orchestra of Northern New York, Camerata New York, and Shenandoah University Symphonic Orchestra. Currently under the guidance of John O’Conor, she has previously studied with Thomas Mastroianni, and attended the Lee University and Southeastern Piano Festivals and the International Institute for Young Musicians. In addition to piano, Evelyn plays the violin and is active at her school as member of the yearbook staff, writer for the newspaper, and coordinator for Tomorrow’s Women in Science and Technology.

YUKINE KUROKI
Japan | Age 16

2015 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival
June 21–28, 2015 I TC

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Franz Liszt, Venezia e Napoli.

May 20, 2016. Franz Liszt, Venezia e Napoli. Today we’ll publish an article on Liszt’s Venezia e Napoli, a revision of the earlier set by the same name, which was published as a supplement to the Deuxième année: Italie. We’ll illustrate Gondoliera with a performance by the young Korean-American pianistWoobin Park, Canzone – by a 1985 recording made by the great Jorge Bolet, when he was 71, and Tarantella – with a performance by another young pianist, the American Heidi Hau. ♫

The cities of Venice and Naples must have made a particular impression upon Franz Liszt during his travels with Marie d’Agoult, for, beside the several pieces that would ultimately become the travelogue of his journeys through Italy in the second volume of Années de pèlerinage, he also composed in 1840 a further four pieces named after them—Venezia e Napoli. Like Années de perinage,Venezia e Napoli likewise underwent a significant process of revision once Liszt was in Weimar. Of the original four pieces

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Classical Music | Piano Music

Recorded on 05/08/2013, uploaded on 10/28/2013

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Liszt’s Années de Pélerinage (‘Years of Pilgrimage’) sound unaffected by the scandal which arose when he left Paris in 1835 with a married woman from the grandest aristocratic circles, the Countess Marie d’Agoult. For the next four years, the couple travelled together in Switzerland and Italy, and three children were born. Venezia e Napoli was published in 1861 as a supplement to Années de Pélerinage. The last piece of this set, Tarantella, a boisterous dance believed to be a cure for the deadly bite from a tarantula, is an evocative and triumphant showpiece that illustrates Liszt’s inventiveness and keyboard ingenuity at its finest. Heidi Hau

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Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (9’) Franz Liszt

Inspired by his travels to Switzerland and Italy in the company of his lover Marie d’Agoult,