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[Arnab]

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No need to wonder, let me give you the words. How about non-generic? Daring? Experimental? Just like Liszt?

"Assume the combination of two things; first, a musical mind that takes rank among the greatest in musical history and second, a pair of hands trained to perfection by Czerny, himself; in other words, a playing apparatus so highly developed as to enable the mind to do with it whatever it pleases; a set of fingers which are the obedient slaves of the player's every whim or caprice and serve the musical mind without its being in the least conscious of the service. If we can stretch our imagination so far as to conceive of this combination we shall have caught a glimpse of what Liszt had at his command."

"It was because of what he had to say that he reached out for a broad education as for a means to express himself clearly and adequately. And it was the musical side of his personality which - endeavoring to put into tonal reality what was in his mind - caused him to use his technique with such results as amounted to the creation of, practically, a new technique"

"The technical innovations are very distinctly the result of Liszt's musical concepts. In other words, the pieces in which these innovations occur are not written round the technical matter, but the technical execution had to be invented to produce the desired effect of the pieces; and the invention of the technical means came of itself to him when he tried his idea on the piano."

Liszt' virtuosity is not something silly as perfection of the techniques that were already there. It is different. In order to express his multifaceted feelings, he had to INVENT new, superhuman techniques. Feelings came first, then came the technique.

"Liszt's every concert had an educational purpose, not as a lesson in piano playing - indeed, not! - but as an elevation of the public's musical taste."

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[Edited on 31-3-2004 by Arnab]

[Nascer]

[Edited on 6-9-2004 by Nascer]