Franz Liszt - The Pilgrimage Years

This documentary attempts to recount the extraordinary, highly eventful life of the great Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), with particular emphasis on his relation with Italy and with Italian art and culture. Although the whole of his life is covered, special attention is given to his first visit to Italy (1837-39), when Liszt conceived a great part of his most important compositions: the two Concertos for piano and orchestra, the Totentanz, the Transcendental Studies, the Dante Sonata. Furthermore, it was in Italy that Liszt invented the recital, and it was Italy that marked the beginning of his grand international tour that was to transform him into the first “rock-star” ante litteram.
The composer’s life is narrated through the reading of original letters and diaries written by Liszt and Marie d’Agoult, accompanied by reconstructed scenes of the period that re-evoke their stays on Lake Como, in Milan, Pisa, San Rossore and Rome - the inspirational sources that fired Liszt’s creative instinct: to see Italy through the eyes of Liszt.
The main characteristics of Liszt’s poetics and the reasons for his historical importance as an innovator of the language for piano and of concert “conventions” are dialectically explained by some of the most authoritative scholars of Liszt, including Charles Rosen, Leslie Howard, Antonio Pappano and Evgeny Kissin. Besides the celebrated performances of famous interpreters of Liszt such as Gyorgy Cziffra and Earl Wild, the documentary also features numerous musical examples played on the piano by Rosen, Howard and Roberto Prosseda, who focus their attention precisely on the pieces that make up the collection “Années de Pèlerinage, Italie”, the piano cycle in which Liszt openly expresses his love for Italian art and culture.
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[@wk3404]

If only this had subtitles ...
great documentary nonetheles!! thank you!

[@pega17pl]

Automatic translation to German is total confusing.

[@Fryderyk_Franciszek]

English, Spanish and Italian ... not a big deal!

[@Blackwhite2277]

Your magnificent videos make TH-cam a sort of sanctuary for me. Something I do not appreciate in any other App ever written
Thank you EuroArts

[@Vivaladama]

Fantastic work! thank you.

[@bozzigmupp510]

Wish there were subtitles

[@ValzainLumivix]

Cool

[@gergelykiss]

"I don't want to sound cynical, but maybe it's not that difficult to become an abbé in your 60s, when you have slept with hundreds of women in your younger years." (Evgeny Kissin 54:14)
That's a brilliant quote even if it might not be historically factual (Liszt was by all accounts much less of a womanizer than what the legends say).

[@belladonna10591]

Hope in not breaching community guidelines, but if I lived back in the day, I give him a shag if he wanted one

[@thanasis_milios]

His attitude towards Liszt shows really in his playing, quite frankly.

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[@Lucius-M]

Those actors should have been in a movie (I would pay to see it with my kidney)

[@setoo6737]

What is the name of Franz Liszt's film ?

[@estarrosa]

Song Without End

[@wheelmanmitch]

2:54 Not one, but TWO ugly lamps! The lack of subtitles is as weird as the furniture.

[@angstpsychose9977]

HAHAAHAG

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Ya me la se no es necesario que la traduzcan. .

[@orvilleclisby6748]

The little logo "Euroarts" is a little bit annoying.

[@donna25871]

There are stories of Wagner being in tears after hearing Liszt play.

[@pega17pl]

Wagner was very emotional if not sometimes hysterical.

[@prammar1951]

He actually fell to his knees seeing Liszt play.

[@NGUYENDUONG-qq5kr]

Bad