![]() His brother Eduard and one sister Barbara also showed great musical talents, as did their father Georg, who worked as an organist and played the piano and violin, but they had few resources for musical education other than within the family. He was also an amateur pianist, and played the organ and violin and sang in a choir. Adam's brother, Eduard, father of Franz von Liszt.Īs a teenager, Liszt played cello in the House of Eszterházy summer orchestra under the direction of Joseph Haydn. ![]() Other family members also adapted this form, e.g. ![]() After the great success of his son Franz, the father Georg also started to use the surname Liszt in the 1820s. In his lifetime, Latin, not Hungarian, was the administrative language of the multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary, hence the recorded Latinised name "Adamus". In his youth, Adam changed his surname "List" to the spelling "Liszt", according to Hungarian pronunciation. Franz tried to learn the common tongue of his kingdom in the 1870s, but in spite of his great language skills he could not reach fluency level. The family lived mostly in the German-speaking parts of Hungary, which is why they had only rudimentary knowledge of Hungarian. Georg was in service for the Hungarian Nikolaus II, Prince Esterházy and both he and his son, Adam, were Hungarian citizens. They lived in Márcz, Nagymarton and Malacky (Slovakia.) There are Germanic, Slavic and Magyar claims of the Liszt family. His family was of Danube Swabian German descent. Father of composer and pianist Franz LisztĪdamus List ( Hungarian: Liszt Ádám 16 December 1776 – 28 August 1827) was the father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt.Īs the second child of Georg Adam List and Katharina (née Baumann) he was born in Nemesvölgy (today Edelstal, Austria), a village close to the Austrian border in the Kingdom of Hungary.
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