I think it’s a real testament to how good these videos are that they’re not just very informative but really quite moving at points too. Please keep them coming - even if the viewer counts aren’t massive (for now), I suspect they mean a lot to the people who watch them. Also love it that you don’t shy from featuring relevant musical works for extended periods (whole of Nuages Gris!) - there’s no substitute for actually hearing the music to understand the point you’re making, after all.
Thank you! That means a lot from someone as insightful as yourself. I'm not particularly bothered by view counts relative to other creators, as I don't think of myself as (or aspire to be) a "TH-camr" as a career choice. Running this channel is more like being the curator of an online library (which, coincidentally, is how I've always viewed your work too).
@@ClassicalNerd People like you, who post content for its own sake and not to amass a crowd, tend to produce the highest quality videos in my experience on this website.
I’d say that the Liszt Academy is a huge part of his legacy - it began due to his largesse and donating his apartment on Vörösmarty Utca, which became the first site (now houses the museum).
@@ClassicalNerdExcuse me? A MONTH?! How in the word can you work that fast?! I am factinated by your videos. They are very qualitativ! They thaught me a lot of things! Thank you!
I don't do a great job at self-promotion, but liking, commenting, subscribing, and especially _sharing_ content is a great way to put them in front of more eyes.
THANK YOU for this - I didn't know a ton about Liszt and, like so many other less knowledgeable fans, was mostly familiar with him as a guy who wrote these acrobatic piano pieces that are just difficult to play, but never achieved the beauty of what Chopin did...I needed to really dig in and find his better compositions - the pilgrimage years stuff is just gorgeous - it has given me a completely new view of the Liszt as a composer AND a wonderful new part of his catalog to explore. Really good stuff, as usual.
I recently really got into classical music after watching the original Fantasia. I heard Liszt for the first time maybe about a month ago and litterally texted my (music major) roommate "This guy Lizst is a monster!" I really enjoy your videos and am glad I found your channel. I'm about to go through and listen to a good bit of them. Thanks for the uploads!
Dear Mr. Nerd. I am a fan of your great channel and I honestly think that with this video on Liszt you achieved absolute mastery! Its the best Liszt "essay" ,if you will, of the man ,virtuoso composer and "showman" I have ever read or seen . Deep respect from a 68 year old Dutch pianist/composer
Love your videos still man, thanks for putting the work and time in. I’m sure working on a video like this for a month can be grueling but us as fans on the other side of the screen really appreciate the effort.
You truly are a gem in TH-cam. I am so glad I found your channel. I would be thrilled to see your insightful knowledge on Albeniz! One of my favorite composers
Love your videos. I discovered many classical composers I've never heard of before thanks to you! Liszt, Chopin and Wagner are my personal top 3 composers. Such a curious thing that these three's lives were so closely intertwined.
Bravo! Liszt is definitely one of my favourite composers. I still remember my piano teacher calling his music "Hausfrauen-Weichspűhler-Musik" (which roughly translates as "housewife softener music"). Which is strange because he was aware of the H-moll Sonate. But because of this, I never paid much attention to his music during my piano studies. Only when I learned that James Bernard was heavily influenced by Liszt when he scored all these Hammer-Horror cult classics (Horror Of Dracula, Kiss Of The Vampire) that I decided to give him a chance and boom!!! It was one of those "were have you been all these years?"- moments. Ever since then I get Lisztomania at least once a year.
36:00 technically Liszt wrote two operas. He composed Don Sanche when he was a teenager, but sometime between 1845 and 1852 he was working on an opera called "Sardanapalo". However, of this work only the first act was finished.
@@ClassicalNerd Oh, I didn't intend to say an unfinished opera is equivalent to a full opera. That's indeed inaccurate, my bad! I only wanted to mention it for the sake of completion. Otherwise one might get the idea Liszt totally quit opera after Don Sanche, which is not 100% true. The legibility of the Sardanapalo sketches was established in 2016, which is relatively recent.
"Les Preludes" was the soundtrack for the 1930's serial Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe. It was the first time I heard the piece. Great video Thomas.
Thomas! Thank you so much for your amazing videos!!!! I just graduated from my musi. undergrad and I've become a d d i c t e d to your videos! 😆 I also love the sense of humor that you sprinkle in later videos: like your Morton Feldman impression or your random funny comments & meme references. Keep up the good work and I wish you luck on your compositions & studies!
I recall reading in vol. 1 of Alan Walker's Liszt biography that Liszt applied for legal paternity of each of his three children by Marie dAgoult as soon as each of them were born... unknown to Marie, and much to her consternation once she and Liszt definitively split.
Truly a titan of the piano, but although small in number compared to his piano output I think his works for organ deserve a mention as well. Especially the mighty Fantasia and fugue on Ad nos, ad salutarem.
Speaking of Liszt's rockstar life: SecondChairMusic has a great video about his "Baby Mama drama". I was really shocked at the predicament Liszt had found himself in.
I don’t know if you can request more than one Composer but here it goes Girolamo Frescobaldi Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck William Byrd Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
After watching the video, I've come to realize why he made versions of his piece called Die zelle in Nonnenworth, especially his final version of it, is full of regret and nostalgic feelings..
Those later works are stunning. I am ashamed I have never heard them, probably polluted by the common narrative and reputation. Do you see a similarity between Listz and Zappa?
An interesting comparison, and a good one the more I think about it. In terms of their productivity and creativity as composers, how overlooked they have been as such relative to their peers, how they used changing technology, how they demanded perfection (Liszt of himself and Zappa of his band), and how their music explored the cutting edge of what was conceivable in their times, they were a lot alike.
Lovely video, would like to request Arthur Sullivan, feel he is not given his place in the history of British music, and that strikes me as unfair due to his position as a popular and successful composer of British music during the Victorian period.
I hereby Declare it your duty as the self-proclaimed classical nerd to cover Jean Henri Ravina born eight years after FL and seven years after Chopin subsequently outliving the pair by a furlong and then some. A complete and accomplished virtuoso whom the establishment has sorely neglected and under scrutinised. 🙂
Hello!! Can someone hlep me with a very long question? So... I have a weird obsseeion, and I guess that not just mine: Listen to (almost) every piece of (almost) every composer. (i just love music. classical music...) just discovering roslavets music rn... And to achieve that, nothing better than organization. I also want to know all music history. And I struggle to find books and resourses to that. So I'm really looking for a list of books with history and everithing about music. A huge list of books and resources would help me a lot and be a very good thing for the community. Like, if I want to listen to all hte music of one composer, I also want to know about the composers life, friends, and the history envoling each piece... Like a video like this in form of book or text of all the composers, music periods and history. I also want to compose. Compose a lot! Im listening litteraly to everything I can now, but would be great to read a biography or a book to know more, analyse the music history and evertihing... There are toons of videos from Classical Nerd and Classics Today, but its a lot of videos..... How to organize everithing??? Thats the main point: Organize. Than read, than listen, than study... Any reccomendations or ideias?? Im trying to structure with Notion, but its really difficult to do this alone (I actually want to do this with art, design, and other areas... like... theres a lot of smart people and knowledge out there, why dont we have a good path to know everithing? ahahha like indexs, lists, guides, paths... I think there are things like this, but i didint find yet. there are the DK books, with some research you can find a lot of great books, i think is just question of time and organization, idk... what are your toughts on how to know and study everything that this world offers?? hahahah) srry for english mistakes
like, how do you guys go so deep? and know so much! thats a wonderful hole of music that is really difficult to enter. and when we are in, we just want to go deeper and deeper. if there was a list of names, reccomendations, with a structured form, it would be amazing. would save my life and my mental health on seeing everithing but knowing and listening to almost nothing 😆
i need to go to a school of music.. what schools/conservatories should i go in the world to study composing and piano or violin? like, what are the very best institutes??
I think there's a Rachmaninoff quote that goes something like "there is more worthwhile music to listen to than there are minutes in a lifetime." I might be butchering that a good deal, but I agree with the sentiment. Simply put, there's no way to listen to that much music and make a serious dent in it over the course of a lifetime. I'm doing a PhD and it seems like every day I discover a new name, a new rabbit hole to explore, a new vista that opens. It can be daunting, but the most helpful thing to do is to try and embrace the fact that the musical world is so rich instead of trying to organize and categorize everything. As to how I go so deep ... well, every video like this takes at least a month to put together, if not longer. I read as much as I can. Not much more to it than that, really.
@@ClassicalNerd yeah... thats it.. :) thank you so much for the reply, all the hard work and the amazing content of the videos!! they are wonderful!! and about the readings, I see that you have a lot of books! any chance of a list on where to start? like, what I said, if I want to know a period and the composers background to each composition, and etc.. I think having a huge essentials + expanded list would save time and be very usefol for everybody! like a base for the good classical music knowledge
I just don't think what you're asking for could exist; there's not going to be one big list to cover _all_ of classical music since it's such an enormous field. My shelves are paltry compared to actual academic music libraries. If you are interested in a _particular_ era or composer, then I might be able to provide some suggestions.
@@ClassicalNerd I mean--yeah I got that part. I meant which of those two things would make him a good Dread Pirate Roberts? ...actually he does _look_ the part looking at it longer
Hungarians suffering under Austrian Empire is rather hungarian hysterical narrative. They mainly suffer when attempting to broke away otherwise they were on top of the food chain terrorizing their own non-hungarian subjects.
I think it’s a real testament to how good these videos are that they’re not just very informative but really quite moving at points too. Please keep them coming - even if the viewer counts aren’t massive (for now), I suspect they mean a lot to the people who watch them.
Also love it that you don’t shy from featuring relevant musical works for extended periods (whole of Nuages Gris!) - there’s no substitute for actually hearing the music to understand the point you’re making, after all.
Thank you! That means a lot from someone as insightful as yourself.
I'm not particularly bothered by view counts relative to other creators, as I don't think of myself as (or aspire to be) a "TH-camr" as a career choice. Running this channel is more like being the curator of an online library (which, coincidentally, is how I've always viewed your work too).
@@ClassicalNerd People like you, who post content for its own sake and not to amass a crowd, tend to produce the highest quality videos in my experience on this website.
I'm the 100th like :)
An 80-minute video on Liszt??? HELL TO THE YEAH! 🔥🔥
I’d say that the Liszt Academy is a huge part of his legacy - it began due to his largesse and donating his apartment on Vörösmarty Utca, which became the first site (now houses the museum).
Finally! Thank you for doing this, and thank you for making it so detailed. Over an hour is nuts, must have been a ton of work!
It really was-over a month's work went into this!
@@ClassicalNerdExcuse me? A MONTH?! How in the word can you work that fast?! I am factinated by your videos. They are very qualitativ! They thaught me a lot of things! Thank you!
My favorite composer. I'm not missing a single second of this.
How ironic that today, people remember servant class members like Liszt and not the people they served.
I remember great and memorable people _regardless_ of their social class.
It's nice to see that actual production wins out in our histories
Its amazing how you are able to make such long but VERY intersting videos!
I can't believe your channel hasn't blown up yet! So many quality documentaries available for free... That's just incredible
I don't do a great job at self-promotion, but liking, commenting, subscribing, and especially _sharing_ content is a great way to put them in front of more eyes.
fantastic work. can't overstate the importance of doing longer form content in an age where short 200 word essays prevail.
Greatest classical music channel ever.
Those sad pictures of him as an old man make sense now.😢
ah my favorite composer, i have only learnt 6-7 pieces of his and they are amazing, especially the mazeppa etude and les cloches de geneve
THANK YOU for this - I didn't know a ton about Liszt and, like so many other less knowledgeable fans, was mostly familiar with him as a guy who wrote these acrobatic piano pieces that are just difficult to play, but never achieved the beauty of what Chopin did...I needed to really dig in and find his better compositions - the pilgrimage years stuff is just gorgeous - it has given me a completely new view of the Liszt as a composer AND a wonderful new part of his catalog to explore. Really good stuff, as usual.
I love that people in recent years started to put out more - easily accessible - content of Franz Liszt. He is such an amazing figure.
I recently really got into classical music after watching the original Fantasia. I heard Liszt for the first time maybe about a month ago and litterally texted my (music major) roommate "This guy Lizst is a monster!"
I really enjoy your videos and am glad I found your channel. I'm about to go through and listen to a good bit of them. Thanks for the uploads!
This is without a doubt one of the best channels on youtube.
Dear Mr. Nerd. I am a fan of your great channel and I honestly think that with this video on Liszt you achieved absolute mastery! Its the best Liszt "essay" ,if you will, of the man ,virtuoso
composer and "showman" I have ever read or seen . Deep respect from a 68 year old Dutch pianist/composer
Liszt was always my favourite composer. I have never heard something more modernistic, awesome and captivating then his music
Thanks!
Another excellent presentation! BRAVO!
he makes me so proud...
This is an amazing video on Franz Liszt. Thank you!
Your videos are just incredible. So much information, yet it's like you are telling me a story, not a lectrure.
Love your videos still man, thanks for putting the work and time in. I’m sure working on a video like this for a month can be grueling but us as fans on the other side of the screen really appreciate the effort.
You truly are a gem in TH-cam. I am so glad I found your channel. I would be thrilled to see your insightful knowledge on Albeniz! One of my favorite composers
Love your videos. I discovered many classical composers I've never heard of before thanks to you! Liszt, Chopin and Wagner are my personal top 3 composers. Such a curious thing that these three's lives were so closely intertwined.
I would love an HBO miniseries focusing on these dudes. So much drama!
Now this is a 80 minute well spent
Beautiful ! Thanks for this behemot, your work is most appreciated !
Bravo! Liszt is definitely one of my favourite composers. I still remember my piano teacher calling his music "Hausfrauen-Weichspűhler-Musik" (which roughly translates as "housewife softener music"). Which is strange because he was aware of the H-moll Sonate. But because of this, I never paid much attention to his music during my piano studies. Only when I learned that James Bernard was heavily influenced by Liszt when he scored all these Hammer-Horror cult classics (Horror Of Dracula, Kiss Of The Vampire) that I decided to give him a chance and boom!!! It was one of those "were have you been all these years?"- moments. Ever since then I get Lisztomania at least once a year.
36:00 technically Liszt wrote two operas. He composed Don Sanche when he was a teenager, but sometime between 1845 and 1852 he was working on an opera called "Sardanapalo". However, of this work only the first act was finished.
I don't buy the logic that starting a piece is equivalent to having _written_ one.
@@ClassicalNerd Oh, I didn't intend to say an unfinished opera is equivalent to a full opera. That's indeed inaccurate, my bad! I only wanted to mention it for the sake of completion. Otherwise one might get the idea Liszt totally quit opera after Don Sanche, which is not 100% true. The legibility of the Sardanapalo sketches was established in 2016, which is relatively recent.
This was absolutely wonderful in every way! Thank you!
Superior to most music uni/concervatoire lectures!
Excellent vidéo!
Bravo!
I saw it coming and here it is!
this is absolutely amazing! thank you for the video
Yes!!!!! I have been waiting for this for a while. Excellent work!!!!
Forgot to mention that jacket. Wow.
'twas a gift of my girlfriend's aunt. Seemed appropriately fashionable for this one!
"Les Preludes" was the soundtrack for the 1930's serial Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe. It was the first time I heard the piece. Great video Thomas.
These videos are great fun and very important in the same time. Keep the hard work up, man. Thank you!
I really like your shelf . It’s Massive . Fantastic
Fantastic, you are my favorite channel on TH-cam.
i just love how liszt keeps making faces on your chest
This video is awesome. Really enjoyed it!
My day was alright great then I saw this! You have made my day
Thomas! Thank you so much for your amazing videos!!!!
I just graduated from my musi. undergrad and I've become
a d d i c t e d to your videos! 😆
I also love the sense of humor that you sprinkle in later videos: like your Morton Feldman impression or your random funny comments & meme references. Keep up the good work and I wish you luck on your compositions & studies!
FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG
Thank you, Thomas. Very masterful and informative.🌹🌹🌾🌹🌹
Thank you so much for this.
Thanks CN
Stellar work
I love Listz’s music. Richard in Dallas
Woohoo I love your videos
Woah!! Nice work.
loved Liszt, didn't realised he was such a genius! thanks! wonder when will you do scriabin ^^
Thank you for the great video, I always find these enjoyable. I would love one about Isaac Albeniz!
Duly noted.
I don't have time to watch this now but will put it on my... well, you know.
I recall reading in vol. 1 of Alan Walker's Liszt biography that Liszt applied for legal paternity of each of his three children by Marie dAgoult as soon as each of them were born... unknown to Marie, and much to her consternation once she and Liszt definitively split.
I love your video!!! Thank you so much for making this 💖🙏🏻🧡
Truly a titan of the piano, but although small in number compared to his piano output I think his works for organ deserve a mention as well. Especially the mighty Fantasia and fugue on Ad nos, ad salutarem.
Great video!
One of your best.
Speaking of Liszt's rockstar life: SecondChairMusic has a great video about his "Baby Mama drama". I was really shocked at the predicament Liszt had found himself in.
Great video . Still waiting patiently for Delius.
I mean, it'll be a while, at this rate: www.lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html
@@ClassicalNerd As long as I'm still alive when you publish LOL. I'm 69 and have prostate cancer
@@ClassicalNerd It'll be quite a collection for future reference
@@andynew2 damn
I asked for Delius the other week. I hope you get well andy
This video is EPIC! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 btw nice twoset rep😂
great video. thanks for this
One thing for sure Franz Listz was on another level for sure and transcribes other people music with ease I would say
I don’t know if you can request more than one Composer but here it goes
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
William Byrd
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
They're at 390th, 89th, 20th, and 161st places as of this writing: www.lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html
After watching the video, I've come to realize why he made versions of his piece called Die zelle in Nonnenworth, especially his final version of it, is full of regret and nostalgic feelings..
YAY, another video!! Consider doing a doing on late baroque composer Joseph-Hector Fiocco! Or mayb Corelli, Or mayb John Dowland?
Duly noted.
Just excellent. Im dusting off anees today!
Liszt decided to become the new Bach after he was tired of being the new Paganini
With a family like that who needs enemies?
Lutoslawski deserves a classical nerd video treatment. Please thumb up if you agree.
Those later works are stunning. I am ashamed I have never heard them, probably polluted by the common narrative and reputation. Do you see a similarity between Listz and Zappa?
An interesting comparison, and a good one the more I think about it. In terms of their productivity and creativity as composers, how overlooked they have been as such relative to their peers, how they used changing technology, how they demanded perfection (Liszt of himself and Zappa of his band), and how their music explored the cutting edge of what was conceivable in their times, they were a lot alike.
Lovely video, would like to request Arthur Sullivan, feel he is not given his place in the history of British music, and that strikes me as unfair due to his position as a popular and successful composer of British music during the Victorian period.
I think the "Bagatelle sans tonalité" is as much in C major as it is in F# minor.
General Oddness *salutes
Awesome video. Thanks 🙏
I hereby Declare it your duty as the self-proclaimed classical nerd to cover Jean Henri Ravina born eight years after FL and seven years after Chopin subsequently outliving the pair by a furlong and then some. A complete and accomplished virtuoso whom the establishment has sorely neglected and under scrutinised.
🙂
Well, he's in line ... in 389th place: www.lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html
@@ClassicalNerd Many thanks, I’ll check back in April 2024 to see where he is in the list!🙏🏽
Is it just me or did Salieri teach half of the 19th century music theory, he's also got Beethoven and Schubert under his teacher belt, right?
Please do a Verdi video
Duly noted: www.lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html
Hi! What's the best book about Chopin's life out there? can you recommend?
I've heard good things about Adam Zamoyski's _Chopin: A New Biography,_ although I've not read that one myself.
@@ClassicalNerd thank you
Hello!! Can someone hlep me with a very long question?
So...
I have a weird obsseeion, and I guess that not just mine: Listen to (almost) every piece of (almost) every composer. (i just love music. classical music...) just discovering roslavets music rn...
And to achieve that, nothing better than organization. I also want to know all music history. And I struggle to find books and resourses to that. So I'm really looking for a list of books with history and everithing about music. A huge list of books and resources would help me a lot and be a very good thing for the community.
Like, if I want to listen to all hte music of one composer, I also want to know about the composers life, friends, and the history envoling each piece... Like a video like this in form of book or text of all the composers, music periods and history. I also want to compose. Compose a lot!
Im listening litteraly to everything I can now, but would be great to read a biography or a book to know more, analyse the music history and evertihing...
There are toons of videos from Classical Nerd and Classics Today, but its a lot of videos..... How to organize everithing???
Thats the main point: Organize. Than read, than listen, than study... Any reccomendations or ideias?? Im trying to structure with Notion, but its really difficult to do this alone
(I actually want to do this with art, design, and other areas... like... theres a lot of smart people and knowledge out there, why dont we have a good path to know everithing? ahahha
like indexs, lists, guides, paths... I think there are things like this, but i didint find yet. there are the DK books, with some research you can find a lot of great books, i think is just question of time and organization, idk... what are your toughts on how to know and study everything that this world offers?? hahahah)
srry for english mistakes
like, how do you guys go so deep? and know so much!
thats a wonderful hole of music that is really difficult to enter. and when we are in, we just want to go deeper and deeper.
if there was a list of names, reccomendations, with a structured form, it would be amazing. would save my life and my mental health on seeing everithing but knowing and listening to almost nothing 😆
i need to go to a school of music.. what schools/conservatories should i go in the world to study composing and piano or violin? like, what are the very best institutes??
I think there's a Rachmaninoff quote that goes something like "there is more worthwhile music to listen to than there are minutes in a lifetime." I might be butchering that a good deal, but I agree with the sentiment. Simply put, there's no way to listen to that much music and make a serious dent in it over the course of a lifetime. I'm doing a PhD and it seems like every day I discover a new name, a new rabbit hole to explore, a new vista that opens.
It can be daunting, but the most helpful thing to do is to try and embrace the fact that the musical world is so rich instead of trying to organize and categorize everything.
As to how I go so deep ... well, every video like this takes at least a month to put together, if not longer. I read as much as I can. Not much more to it than that, really.
@@ClassicalNerd yeah... thats it.. :)
thank you so much for the reply, all the hard work and the amazing content of the videos!! they are wonderful!!
and about the readings, I see that you have a lot of books! any chance of a list on where to start? like, what I said, if I want to know a period and the composers background to each composition, and etc.. I think having a huge essentials + expanded list would save time and be very usefol for everybody! like a base for the good classical music knowledge
I just don't think what you're asking for could exist; there's not going to be one big list to cover _all_ of classical music since it's such an enormous field. My shelves are paltry compared to actual academic music libraries. If you are interested in a _particular_ era or composer, then I might be able to provide some suggestions.
Could you do a video on Max Reger his music is extremly angular and he seems like a mysterious guy
Is the Tausig-Dread Pirate Roberts connection a reference to “Das Geisterschiff” or is it a reference to him murdering a cat?
It's a reference to the movie _The Princess Bride._
@@ClassicalNerd I mean--yeah I got that part. I meant which of those two things would make him a good Dread Pirate Roberts? ...actually he does _look_ the part looking at it longer
@@soratonin it was 100% due to the look, tbh. The cat thing is just plain cruel
Why did it take you so long to do Liszt a video? 😢
Anyway, 1 hour and 20 minutes about Liszt, here we go 😎
I have those two Ives albums that I see on your shelves.
What piece is used at 11:43
Star Wars
But... how was the piano rotated before Liszt?
I'm not familiar of there being _a_ standard before Liszt.
Good one still.
7:14- #blazeit ?
Wonderful long informative video. Just what I wanted
It is a reference to ... a certain tradition that some people partake of on April 20th.
wao
I wonder how Liszt would have felt about Keith Jarrett.
yessss - also, the Triangle stays, you traitor!
Yaaaaaasssss!!!! U r BAAAAAACCCHHHH!!!!
Technically Liszt was German. Both of his parents were German/Austrian.
Hungarians suffering under Austrian Empire is rather hungarian hysterical narrative. They mainly suffer when attempting to broke away otherwise they were on top of the food chain terrorizing their own non-hungarian subjects.
25:47 HAHAHAHAHA going to send this clip to all the girl classmates
he was No Rock star! that analogy must vanish!
18:56Liszt could not have been liszted
I find playing Liszts music is hard. I find Chopin & Debussy is more playable & easier.
You should have called this Lizst: the Jizst
How do I delete my inappropriate comment?
#justiceforsalieri