Franz liszt biography video on michael
Franz liszt biography video on michael
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This teenager says he is Franz Liszt’s great-great-great-grandson – and we can feel it
30 July 2019, 15:29 | Updated: 22 August 2019, 12:45
This is fascinating: watch the great-great-great-grandson of Franz Liszt playing ‘La campanella’, just as the great virtuoso would have intended it.
Young pianist Michael Andreas claims to be a direct descendant of actual Franz Liszt (1811-1886), composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies and classical music’s original piano rockstar.
In the video above, the 17-year-old concert pianist plays his great-great-great-grandfather’s La campanella (meaning ‘the little bell’ in Italian) with finesse and agility.
As the third of Liszt’s six Grandes études de Paganini, ‘The Little Bell’ is famous for being one of the most fiendish pieces ever written for the piano.
Find out more about Liszt in David Walliams’ Marvellous Musical Podcast >
But Andreas’ impressive musical heritage doesn’t stop there.
Sophie Menter, a virtuoso pianist and Liszt