Nineteenth-century classical composers were great fans of recomposition, some of it flamboyantly transformational, as in Franz Liszt's florid transcriptions for solo piano of Franz Schubert's songs.

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She remembered having had a chat with Franz Liszt when she was seven.

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It took Franz Liszt 26 years to compose his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E flat Major.

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Instead, he studied organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where his reputation fostered his meeting and subsequent close friendship with Franz Liszt.

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His father was an oil executive and his mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, a piano teacher who had studied with a pupil of Franz Liszt.

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At age 3, he began studying piano with his mother, herself an accomplished pianist who had studied with a pupil of the great 19th century Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt.

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For Franz Liszt, the piano was an orchestra.

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He could be a heavy hitter himself: Just listen to the passage from Franz Liszt's B minor Sonata (on the left side of this page), which some critics say surpasses his definitive 1932 version.

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