Wagner’s great friend, Franz Liszt, was up next with his Piano Concerto No. 2. There is a chasm between Liszt and Wagner when it comes to writing orchestral music but the piano part was another ...

A rare Liszt miniature conveys the influence of Wagner down to the pupils of Arnold Schoenberg. Links would have sounded clearer with the inclusion of pieces by Wagner and Schoenberg, but ...

Having been accused, in America and elsewhere, of misrepresenting the relations between Wagner and Meyerbeer, and knowing that Wagner will never mention Meyerbeer's name, nor allow any one to ...

“My Walküre turns out terribly beautiful,” Richard Wagner wrote to his friend, the composer Franz Liszt, on June 16, 1852. “I hope to submit to you the whole poem of the tetralogy before ...

Wagner met up with Liszt at his house, west of Dresden. With the police on his tail, he couldn't stay, but Liszt had taken care of arrangements.

Join the Aspen Music Festival and School for a special recital you can watch LIVE at CPRClassical.org. Aspen livestreams are BACK for their 75th anniversary season. Throughout the summer ...

Giovanni Sgambati – an Italian Liszt Wagner pushed for publication of Sgambati’s two piano quintets.

At the piano in NPR's Studio 1, Louis Lortie re-creates Wagner's vocal and orchestral palette in Liszt's arrangement of the rapturous "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde.

Wagner, Liszt’s revered son-in-law, was carried to his final resting place in just such a procession in February 1883, less than two months after Liszt composed the work.

Liszt's impact on other composers is examined on this intriguing project played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Composer: Liszt, Wagner, Berg, Scriabin, Ravel, Messiaen, Stroppa ...

Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor demands the utmost from the performer in musical as well as technical terms. It's a piece that in the best performances can spark a powerful emotional ...