At 13, his one-act opera Don Sanche was performed to some acclaim, but he withdrew the score and never tried the stage again.
He was trained in his early years by his father, but when it became clear that he was a prodigy of Mozartean dimensions, a group of noblemen paid for his family to go to Vienna, where he studied piano with the famed technician Czerny and composition with Antonio Salieri. Later in life, he claimed that he played for Beethoven, who rewarded him with a kiss, but this is probably untrue as Beethoven was stone-deaf by that time. At 13, his one-act opera Don Sanche was performed to some acclaim, but he withdrew the score and never tried the stage again. Thus was the early life, FTP, of what Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist, known for his Faust symphony and for the symphonic poem Les Preludes.
He was trained in his early years by his father, but when it became clear that he was a prodigy of Mozartean dimensions, a group of noblemen paid for his family to go to Vienna, where he studied piano with the famed technician Czerny and composition with Antonio Salieri.
Franz Liszt