As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?

Pianist Lang Lang honors his idol on the new album 'Liszt: My Piano Hero.' When you think of rock n' roll, Franz Liszt might not be the first name that comes to mind. But the classical pianist, born ...

Sardanapalo to premiere in Germany after Cambridge academic translates and deciphers neglected sketchbook As soprano Joyce El-Khoury launches into a soaring F-major aria and the orchestra follows with ...

Tomorrow is the 200th birthday of composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Morning Edition's music commentator Miles Hoffman thinks there are plenty of reasons to celebrate. "This is a man who lived an ...

The women who screamed and swooned for the 19th Century piano virtuoso Franz Liszt set the pattern for fans in our own time – from The Beatles to Justin Bieber. The spectacle of young women shrieking, ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on 25 May 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...

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The rakish composer is often considered vulgar – but this is precisely what makes him so irresistible Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: ...

‘Sardanapalo’, Liszt’s unfinished opera which had been lost in the archives for nearly 170 years, was premiered in Germany on Sunday. Franz Liszt’s only opera was revived for the first time on Sunday ...