 Regardless, composers increasingly turned to the "more compact form" of the concert overture "as a vehicle within which to blend musical, narrative and pictoral ideas"; examples included Mendelssohn's overtures "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1826) and "The Hebrides" (1830).Franz Liszt, a Hungarian composer, had attempted to write a "Revolutionary Symphony" as early as 1830; however, his focus for the early part of his adult life was mostly on his performing career.By 1847, Liszt was famous throughout Europe as a virtuoso pianist.