He coined the term "recital," and was the first musician to play onstage alone.
A piano sonata by this composer begins with a series of descending octave tritones symbolizing a descent into hell. A piano piece by this composer opens in 3/8 time in the second bar of a 4-bar hypermeasure with the left hand repeating fast low E eighth notes, then stacking perfect fifths on them to imitate a man tuning a violin. Marc-André Hamelin (om-LAN) and Sergei Rachmaninoff both composed difficult cadenzas for a piano piece by this composer consisting of a somber lassan (LAW-shawn) followed by a playful friska (FREESH-kah). He coined the term "recital," and was the first musician to play onstage alone. This composer included his Dante Sonata in a series of suites inspired by his travels in Switzerland and Italy, Years of Pilgrimage. For 10 points, name this composer of the Mephisto Waltzes and many Hungarian Rhapsodies.
A piano sonata by this composer begins with a series of descending octave tritones symbolizing a descent into hell.
Franz Liszt &lt;Magin&gt;