“Ferenc Liszt, the Teacher” Exhibition Opens its Doors

Liszt, the Teacher, a new temporary exhibition on the teaching work of Hungarian composer Ferenc (Franz) Liszt, opens on 12 May at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum in Budapest.

The joint exhibition of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and the Cervantes Institute, on show until 30 June, aims to showcase Liszt’s thinking through his teaching. The exhibition includes Liszt’s letters, sketchbooks, music scores, diary entries, recollections by contemporaries and documents from his students, according to a statement by the Cervantes Institute in Budapest on Tuesday.

As they recall, during his teaching career, Liszt Ferenc Liszt sought to achieve the objectives he set out in his 1835 essay On the Position of Artists and Their Place in Society. The theme of the exhibition is therefore not limited to Liszt’s work as a piano teacher, but also includes a number of concrete examples of the interpretative issues he highlighted, the expansion of the repertoire of the curriculum, his musical interpretations and his teaching of composers.

Miriam Gomez-Morán and pianist Péter Kiss will give a concert at the opening of the exhibition on 11 May, and on 13 May they will give a matinee concert of Liszt and Beethoven in the Chamber Hall of the Old Academy of Music.

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