Franz Liszt turned anything and everything into virtuoso piano music his source material ranged from full symphonies to popular ditties.

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It initially was reported that he stunned witnesses with a "virtuoso performance" on the piano.

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Scored in three movements, their duration determined by chance, his four-minute-and-thirty-three-second work was first presented at the Maverick Concert Hall in New York, where the virtuoso pianist David Tudor performed it by sitting motionless at the piano, counting time on a stopwatch.

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