During Richard Wagner's exile from Germany, this musician conducted the premiere of Lohengrin.
During Richard Wagner's exile from Germany, this musician conducted the premiere of Lohengrin. One of this composer's piano works, nicknamed "La chasse," draws from Paganini's ninth caprice, and Paganini's second violin concerto inspired this composer's étude "La campanella." This composer wrote a set of three piano pieces called Liebesträume (lee-bis-TROY-muh) not long after he invented the symphonic poem, an example of which is his Les Preludes. This composer's other works for piano include the Mephisto Waltzes and the Transcendental Etudes. For 10 points, name this virtuoso pianist and composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
During Richard Wagner's exile from Germany, this musician conducted the premiere of Lohengrin.
Franz Liszt [or Liszt Ferenc]