As a hardcore Lisztomaniac, this video has made my night. I've been reading so many books about Liszt. The more I read, the more fascinated I am. Liszt is so complex he cannot be reduced to a few aspects: he is fractally complex, an extraordinary matrix of music and intellect. Génie oblige!

I really appreciate all the guys trying to speak as much English as possible, that's not always the case in Germany Oh and greetings from Germany, love your videos, keep up the great work

Binging these videos, she's shown me how much better I can be and how to improve in ways I never thought possible

I recently turned 12 and Nahre is such an inspiration for me as a student musician. I'm currently doing the RCM program (its a level ranking system thing) and am at ARCT. Although I'm pretty decent at playing, history, harmony, and music analysis, my understanding of music is still nothing compared to you. I absolutely love your videos, keep doing what you do and stay awesome

Thank you so much for this beautiful video❤️ Liszt holds a special place in my heart. He’s easily the most maligned, misunderstood, misrepresented composer of the 19th century. It angers me. I get very defensive and protective about him because I love him so much. People also seem to forget this is the same man who penned the Faust Symphony. His insane magnanimity towards other musicians nurtured entire generations of pedagogues, composers, performers, and conductors. I encountered Liszt and all of his brilliance through the windows of others lives including George Sand, George Eliot, Chopin, and Emperor Joseph I. Liszt’s life was so full of wonder, excitement, and adventure! It’s impossible not to be captivated by his presence. I can feel it even now when I listen to his music or read his letters. The anecdotes are all the same: When he would appear he was like he was a fallen angel. He was a splash of color in their lives and when he left, every went back to being black and white. And boring.....Liszt was a lot of things but he certainly wasn’t boring or dull. Here are the last two paragraphs from an essay I wrote about the Faust Symphony for school: “In her musical play, Ordo virtutem, Hildegard of Bingen tells the story of Satan’s schism from holy song; Hildegard maintained that sacred psalms and canticles are humanity's closest connection to the divine. Akin to the fate of the giant Nimrod in Dante’s Divine Comedy (Canto 31 Nimrod has one indecipherable line “Raphèl mai amècche zabì almi") the devil is reduced to unintelligible screeches. This linguistic impairment underscores their estrangement from the providence of the sacred. From the outset, both figures are punished for coveting an avaricious existential yearning in which God strips both figures of language. Within a theological context, language and song was created by God to commune with the divine. Depriving creatures of language precludes them from obtaining salvation. Creation is reserved for the divine. Mephistopheles being an agent of negation can only resort to tricksterism, besieging Faust with a carnival of sinister parodies. Basking in this ontological nullification, Faust seeks redemption from the purity of Gretchen’s love. In a sense, Mephistopheles was correct in surmising that he was part of the darkness that preceded the birth of light, for within the darkness, Faust finds celestial atonement and transcends his suffering. Goethe’s Faust fictionalizes historical characters and historicizes fictional characters, weaving them together until we can no longer tell which is which. Not unlike Faust, Liszt experienced transfigurative suffering. Consequently, Liszt cultivated a profound desire for the divine and the sacred yet was bound by earthly temptations. Like a moth circling a flame, beckoning the light, but trepidatious of being devoured by fire. These metaphysical dichotomies abound throughout his life as he endured inconsolable despairing episodes reminiscent of the biblical story of Job, losing his children and other loved ones, his marriage, his post at Weimar, as well as other colleagues. Liszt endured scathing criticism as a composer during his life but persevered with the faith that his compositions would be appreciated posthumously. His faith was not misplaced.”

Since I discovered this channel just two months ago, it has become my favourite youtube channel - by far! Even motivated me to finally buy that new piano I had been dreaming about for so long, and start playing seriously again... I couldn't be happier! So for that, from the bottom of my heart: thank you!

Nahre - Do more stuff like this. Suddenly these dusty old composers have the youthful romanicism back, the heady continental nights, the smell of candles, roses and wine!

What a beautiful video, I'm a big fan of Liszt and seeing such things like the piano he used to play it's a whole experience that words cannot express. Thank you Nahre!

I had the same experience of learning Math history. When I was a student, I thought there was a fixed Canon of Math which just happened. But to learn the many interactions of Mathemeticians over the ages and how the development of Math techniques were influenced by so many other historical events really changed my understanding of the subject. PS I have placed in my will that if you ever visit my house at some future date the occupants are supposed to let you play my piano too!

I listen to ABC Classic radio station in my car and sometimes at home and they often talk about the history of a piece or the composer. It really does give you a different appreciation of music. How were they feeling when they wrote it? Was the composer struggling? Who did they interact with? How were they regarded at the time?

The part where you played the very piano Liszt sat at really has sent shivers down my spine! Thank you for highlighting once again how much the context matters when perceiving a piece of music (or any art, for that matter).

Imagine a recording of Liszt performing one of his works was available today.

So great how excited and passionate everyone here is about Liszt and his music. It really shines through.

That long-haired guy’s little “also“s while trying to speak english is so heartwarming :)

I really liked Liszt for his flashy virtuosic yet musical pieces, and very detailed transcriptions, but it's mind blowing to hear the story behind it

There's an indescribable pleasure on discovering the human side of music...

I'm glad Liszt gets the more widespread recognition for his ingenuity; truly a pioneer of the pianoforte, an avant-gardist, a master of the musical form and freeing it from its bounds and set rules. Truly a brilliant man, virtuoso and friar; ahead of its time, his innovations and genius deserves to be more known!

I am a simple man. When I see liszt I click.

I dont know music theory, i dont play piano. But Liszt is one of my favourites composers because he creates emotion in such a subtle way, he makes the piano disappear and the music becomes an environment and a story emerges.

When that man allowed you to play the piano I was literally in awe

Thanks for sharing your journey! It made me think about a somewhat similar trip I made in my youth to Saltzburg, to Mozart’s home museum. I set off the alarm by touching his hammer piano 🙈

I strongly disliked Liszt until I started studying his music seriously, I thought his music was a bunch of incoherent passages and strange harmonies without any musical content. This is mostly a result of a typical pianist's education that is founded upon the shoulders of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin. Liszt was trying to do something else purposefully. You need to understand the background behind his music, his role as a revolutionary in both pianism and composition. At some point I realised that he single-handedly changed the course of history in a positive way. You can still dislike his pieces but in a way that one can dislike any piece for that matter. The truth remains, Liszt was the first person to have treated the piano as a device that could created tone paintings and therefore express programmatic content. That is mostly his achievement in a nutshell.

I am warming up to Liszt because of how he mentored Alexander Borodin. Borodin took the occasion of escorting some of his students to Germany to make a special stop to visit Liszt, who apparently treated Borodin like a King.

Historically, I think there is a direct connection between Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt, and then from Franz Liszt to Béla Bartók. The latter two are of course especially fondly remembered (and virtually worshiped) in Hungary, and when traveling in Budapest three decades ago, even as a non-musician (but one who loves music) I could feel the presence of these wonderful composers. Just as Jazz and Blues has a characteristically American Sound and influence that has its roots in Africa, many of those 19th century classical composers have a rhythm and sound that is undeniably 'Magyar' (or Hungarian) in origin. Since you are still young, Nahre, I am sure you will have many more opportunities to travel, and I think you would be amazed at the way Hungarians cherish these composers even today. - j q t -

I’m surprised how moving this actually was. Seeing the manuscripts and other artifacts like that and getting to sit at one of his own pianos.. incredible. I can only imagine what it must have been like for you.

The feeling when the only thing the teacher told us about him in music studies was that he was a contemporary of Chopin and a great showman who composed Hungarian rhapsody no. 2. This was the only thing I knew about him until recently. And I'm not alone...😢 Poor Ferenc.

He was the most photographed figure of the 19th century and literally a virtuoso, composer, friar, philanthropist, scholar, teacher... and more. Highly recommend reading Alan Walker's biography about (imo) the most interesting figure in all of Western classical music.

omg a new Nahre Sol video! I feel invigorated already

I've been to Weimar and I absolutely loved it - so much culture in this little town and of course I went to Liszt's house which was so interesting and when I walked past the Franz Liszt Hochschule I heard great piano playing coming out of so many windows.

This video has such passionate energy. I loved seeing everyone being so excited.

Touching the piano once played by Franz Liszt is like toching God.

When a performer knows a lot about the context of the music he is performing, it brings depth and exudes confidence to the listener that this artist is authentic and that the music being played is worthy of his attention, regardless of its familiarity or lack there of in popular culture. A close-up view of the detail and detritus of the actual lives of the people who wrote the music we admire is inherently interesting and rewarding in ways a superficial overview will seldom be.

Liszt got me into classical music and music history which is what I live and breath man. Couldn't appreciate him more and it always makes me happy when I see people realizing that he was so much more than an insanely difficult gimmick composer

I could spend my whole day watching Nahre's videos. What a great entertainer and teacher she is!

Nahre, this video is absolutely thrilling! Sharing your trip to Weimar was totally unexpected. I am a huge fan of Liszt, and have played his works throughout my long life, or at least attempted to. Seeing you in his rooms caused my heart to beat rapidly. I've been to locations where other composers lived and worked (Chopin, Mozart, etc.), but never Ferenc! I look forward to viewing many of your videos now. Very best wishes from Elliott in Manhattan!

As a physicist, I have found much the same value in studying the history of science and mathematics. I completely agree with what you said: you don't need it, but it brings so much more depth and appreciation when you understand the context of the refined products that remain today.

No way what a beautiful moment getting invited to play the instrument. wow i have tears in my eyes... so precious thank you for sharing

I appreciate your work and respect for Liszt. My love and regard for Liszt has been with me all my life. My 96 year old mother as a young girl studied piano with one of Liszt last students.

I completely agree with Nahre Sol: music is enjoyable without knowledge but if we learn more about the composer, and the era that could give us a completely new horizon about the composition. And learning is fun also.

Liszt is such a great composer and virtuoso pianist, His 2nd ballade, The sonata in B minor, Scherzo und marsch, The hungarian rhapsodies,Liebestraumes and the Transcendental etudes made me love his music automatically just by listening to them for the first time, If only we could have someone today like him.

Having joined the Liszt Society, he is now on the liszt

Before I started Learning Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 I was not a fan, now he is one of my favorite composers

You being invited to play on Franz Liszt's piano is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing that incredible moment. Also...That's totally a portrait of Beethoven at 15:14, right?

Thank you for creating this outstanding video! Brilliant work! How awesome for you to be able to play on his piano, see his manuscripts, personal letters, and human part of his life as a composer. I now have an added perspective of Liszt which will help in my interpretation of his music.

I didn't even see a second of the video and I already know it's going to be great

Thank you Nahre...very inspiring experience you have shared with your viewers. I have nearly finished the 2nd Book from Professor Alan Walker, The Weimar Years. Have also enjoyed David Dubal early lecture from 1984 interviewing Alan Walker after publishing his first Bood, The Virtuoso Years. Also of interest if you Google Alan Walker lecture at the Library of Congress, to name one..there are others with David Dubal, director of the Juilliard School of Music. Liszt is so instrumental to the true development of music. Thank you again...felt like I was there again in Liszt house in Weimar. Rev. T. W.

I love how his notebooks were also his diary, which makes perfect sense to me.

Thank you for a very interesting video. Liszt was tremendously influential as a composer and pianist, but he was also a very generous, kind, and funny teacher, as we learn from Amy Fay’s Music Study in Germany. I think you would enjoy reading it.

What a treat for you!!! I love all these in depth studies and “how to sound like” videos. They are music to my ears. I look forward to your videos!! Thank you for your curiosity!!

Congrats Nahre! In my humble opinion this is one of the very best videos you have made. Brilliant editing. I love it. Thank you. 👍🏼👏👏👏😊❤

Great video Nahre, thank you for sharing!

As a student, I wish I had a teacher like Nahre--for any subject.

I love Liszt. But to learn how he had played such pivotal role in the classical musical history was just, wow. Better study him more. He also happened to write the most difficult piano solo pieces as well, at least to me. Your ending statement about the whole picture is seriously spot on! Super informative, Ty Nahre for this amazing video.

Grüße aus Deutschland! I'd love to see you live in concert if you're ever in NRW (Germany)! You're a huge inspiration and i concider your videos one of the most informative on piano of all time! I followed for i think 1,5 years now and watched every video, you're awesome!

this is freaking awesome.

Brilliant Nahre Sol, this is an absolutely real documentary, it's like we were there. Please give my thanks to your friend Joe. These musical souls you met are purely wonderful. Loved it when that Dr. mentioned the music from the 70's & 80's...old school real :) looks so fun meeting all those brilliant curators of knowledge. To see those original music scores, and letters! OMG... YOU PLAYED HIS PIANO!!😱 Beautiful explanation of the feeling when you were dancing hand in hand with Liszt on his piano. Great video, has a classical feel with a uniquely original hint of free form jazz. Love the enthusiasm in your guest's teachings, appreciate you expanding upon their thoughts too. Hope all's well, good to see-hear you again. Thanks Nahre SoLiszt 🌟🎥💡😎🎼📃🎼😱👐🎹👐😱🎵💃🎵🎤💯👍🌎🌍🌏🎉🎉🎉🍻

Fascinating! Liszt's pieces are some of my favourite pieces to (try and) play on the piano. So rich and expressive...

It is amazing that you did this trip and documented it. After watching this, I agree with what you said, that (I'm paraphrasing) knowing better a composers history and having the notion of a bigger picture that involves him adds a lot of value to him and his music. I was especially amazed by how Liszt related to other composers and sort of synthesized their composition methods, also, to see that you PLAYED HIS PIANO; it is comprehensible that you couldn't really put it into words... Thank you for the great content.

Very fascinating video, thank you for taking us with you on your journey! The part when you sat down at Liszt's piano had me on the edge of my seat. I could feel the tension in the room. An amazing experience, even just from watching you

Les Preludes will always be a favourite of mine as it was my first introduction to Liszt and classical music as a young kid. The Von Karajan Recording for EMI with the Philharmonia orch will forever be my favourite reading of that work.

Candle arbors on the upright piano as I have often thought that when there was no electricity there was nothing much to do but practice and o they were so great.

Can I just say thank you for all the videos that you make. I am always so intrigued by how composers compose their pieces. Your videos serve as a great inspiration for me.

GOD I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO DO A LISZT ANALYSIS THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE AAAHHH 💞😭🥺🥰

I adore the enthusiasm here. Thank you

Your videos are incredible and you are such a talented musician. Thank you for sharing 🙏

Lots of interrupting each other during those page views. Everyone's so excited! I want to hear what that curator was saying though... :(

The fact that you didn’t put in the title “Litszt Piano” or something, really tells a lot about you, your KZfaq channel and piano.

9:46 might dispute that and say it's mostly Clara, I think Robert only took issue on a personal level later on and not musically

Hi Nahre, Many thanks for sharing this beautiful musical crusade. And as you state in the end, this will surely reflect (even more) when playing his compositions from now on. Love your videos and hope to see/ listen to you one day in the Netherlands 😉

Just writing to say that I recently watched the PBS soundfield episode on trap, and I'm now watching this vodie. It's really amazing to see someone who values all forms of music! Most people who value classical music would never take trap seriously, and most people into trap wouldn't be into classical. Your love for all music is so inspirational!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about your wonderful journey ... your discourse was very well done. Always look for a chance to add a bit of sparkle to your compositions, musical or verbal. Also, good editing of all that hand held stuff.

appreciate these incredible videos, they are so informative and genuinely well made. teaching me more than school has taught in me in a passionate, honest and genuine way. thanks again, Nahre

What an amazing experience this must have been. Thank you for sharing it with us!

I LOVE Liszt just from his pieces, but certain details in this just made me love him 1000000 times more omg I got emotional

Once you get past the dazzle of the Hungarian Rhapsodies and the aching romantic melodies of the Liebestraums and Un Sospiros, and listen to his broader accomplishments and read about the composers he interacted with and supported, you realise that there are not many composers/musicians/cultural figures as pivotal as Liszt.

nahre...as a classical pianist myself I appreciate the study you put into making these videos & play your right hand hand etude daily as a warm up since I also notated a symmetrical version for the left hand...in any case I feel the same way about PAGANINI but more so than liszt...I will explain why...the caprice op.1 the he wrote were so revolutionary that it was like throwing a rock into a pond & watching the waves turn into ripples...not only did he change how the violin was played, but comp I sers from OTHER instruments felt those ripples & were inspired by them...just think about how many pianists (never mind any other instruments) were inspired by his 24th caprice which wasn't such amazing music writing at the time per se (simply a I V dialog & then a simple sequence in a) but were stirred into composing their own versions...schumann, liszt, brahms, rachmaninov, thalben-ball, and maybe 100 others...in any case music history is fascinating🤩🌹

On top of being a great musician and communicator (and I can only imagine a wonderful person), you have become an amazing storyteller, Nahre. As soon as you started playing the eerie Nuages gris on Liszt's piano, my eyes were damped with emotion. Thanks!

I’m a drummer from Germany, but learned a lot about music theory and music history in school and even then always had a relative interest in both of those things thanks to school. These things were covered so much specifically because we are in Germany and therefore have a much closer tie to these names. I guess what’s crazy to me is how much I took this for granted. I never contemplated how it would be for say an American musician like you to not grow up with basically touchable music history in your “vicinity” (Germany is tiny when it comes to traveling, visiting a place like Weimar is easy no matter where you live in Germany, essentially). Not to denigrate US musicians by the way, for instance you have a rich jazz history that one could explore in form of various cities, music clubs and what not. So yeah, this video gave me a new appreciation and gratitude for how we covered this in school. I mean hell school classes go to Weimar all the time, not even just for music history but literature history as well (Goethe). That’s so much more special than I gave it credit for.

This was interesting, I enjoyed the history lesson and hearing you humbly play his instrument.

Thank you for another fabulous video Nahre! I think it is really wonderful how you embrace the idea of how music has so many angles, points of view. Sure, there is the music itself, but knowing more about that music, it's composer's life and circumstances, the time period in which the music was written, it makes it all so much richer. I really love and deeply respect that you work with that mindset.

This was wonderful! I had the good fortune to visit the Ferenc (his real name) Liszt academy in Budapest. I really encourage a visit! I am surprised that no one in this video pronounced Liszt properly. It should be like "least". Thanks!

What a wonderful mini documentary! It brought me back to my university years when studying Ethnomusicology and Music history. In current times of closed (or semi closed) borders when travelling is impossible (at least where I live), this doco is a fresh breeze of curiosity, an illuminated insight into music and history. I truly appreciate the spontaneous, almost impromptu approach of the video (of course I'm not saying it wasn't thoroughly edited in great detail). Well done, Nahre, for surrounding yourself with so many inspiring, knowledgeable and passionate people. You also received outstanding feedback in the comments! Congratulations, Nahre.

I definitely had a similar feeling when I had the opportunity to play Horowitz' piano. Pretty awestruck.

I can highly recommend Alan Walker’s three volume biography on Liszt. However, I feel you can’t really understand Liszt until you have been to Budapest and visited the old Academy building (which was his house). Liszt’s playing is so typically Hungarian.

New subscriber and amateur pianist here. Just bought your Piano Intensive Video Course because I saw how informative and high-quality your videos are. You are the piano teacher who I never had. Thank you.

This video really helped me in my understanding of Liszt. I could appreciate historically informed performance of Mozart, Beethoven or Bach, but I have struggled to find historical inspiration in my playing of Liszt's musc. Thank you.

Very nicely done. This had the proper look and feel of a documentary. I really appreciated hearing how you were able to connect more with Liszt and other works through this. I’ve only just started learning piano seriously but I’ve been in awe of Liszt for a long time - the fact no one alive has heard him play but can still list him as probably the greatest speaks volumes of his legacy and legend. What would be your favourite Liszt composition?

(Disclaimer: I am not a musician, nor have I ever been connected professionally with music.) In the case of Liszt, unlike other composers I never “got” his music until later in life. There were other composers who likewise had no connection for me, but I never considered this as two categories, or that Liszt would serve as a gateway to my appreciation of more composers. I specifically note that listening to Lisitsa perform Liszt seems to be where this door was opened for me. Since then, my ability to appreciate Ravel, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and others has greatly improved. Why this transition occurred, I cannot say.

KZfaq recommended this to me. Even though I don't understand anything about any of these composers and this kind of music in general but seeing how happy you are about knowing more about their history makes me feel some things. Your passion towards knowing more amazes me. It feels like I wish to be passionate like that towards the things I love.

I just found your channel. This was just awesome! I didn't know what I was going to be watching, but when you entered the room with his piano, I literally gasped! Great that you were able to show the "human side" of Liszt. Certainly, much more than notes on a page!

Thank you so much for all the depth you bring to the appreciation of music! Absolutely LOVE your "how to sound like" series. And this adds a great personal touch to one of the greatest!

Many thanks, Nahre Sol for a beautiful testament -- from a lover and student of Franz Lizst's life and music.

A voice teacher turned me on to Liszt as a going away present just before I moved. :-)

I'm humbled, I'm fortunate. I thank you Nahre for sharing your experiences with us. Thank you...

When your host invited you to sit at Liszt's own piano and play, I got goosebumps. I can only imagine what was swirling around inside you! Marvelous video. Thanks so much for sharing.

Love this video. I had a similar experience in Budapest at the Liszt House, and the Liszt Academy of Music (where I studied). There is a magic in his musical ghost...

Fascinating glimpse into Liszt's life in Weimar. I especially enjoyed your performance of Nuages Gris on Liszt's piano. Thank you!

2:48 Oh god, I misheard "And he was friends with Hector Berlioz, who founded in France this new technique for castration."

Very cool video! I highly recommend Alan Walker's three volume biography of Liszt. Also his Chopin bio is excellent as well! He really brings to life the world these composers lived in!

Thanks! Brilliant as always! My piano enthusiasm was rekindled at a rather "old" age of 30 by works of Liszt and Rachmaninoff. Over the last 5 years or so, my love for the latter remained while the former faded. I think what initially drew me to him was the virtuosity and flashiness of his works. However, watching this was highly inspiring, will need to listen to a bit more Liszt and perhaps resume reading his biography that I started years back.