![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is quite remarkable, as Beethoven stood up with a gentle smile, walked close to Liszt, put his hand on the young pianist's head and said: "A devil of a fellow!". To which Liszt noted: "Fortunately, I was able to do so". After Liszt played the fugue, according to him, Beethoven said: "And could you also transpose the Fugue at once into another key?". After that, Beethoven asked Liszt to play a Bach's fugue and Liszt chose the one in C minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (he also did not specify which book). ![]() The first piece Liszt played (he did not specify which one) was by Ferdinand Ries, a student and close friend of Beethoven. The room in which he died was behind the third or fourth window from the left on the third floor from ground level. This was Beethoven last house and he died there on March 26, 1827. He looked gloomily at us for a time, said a few brief words to Czerny and remained silent when my kind teacher beckoned me to the piano".īelow the building where the meeting took place. Liszt describes the moment he entered Beethoven's house like this: "Beethoven was working at a long, narrow table by the window. By that time, the young prodigy was already giving concerts and becoming well-known (he had not yet started composing though, that begun the year after when he published his first piece "Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli " S. Liszt was just eleven years old when his teacher, Czerny, brought him to meet Beethoven. Art, art alone deterred me.īeethoven wrote to his brothers on OctoA child prodigy But little more and I should have put an end to my life. Such experiences brought me to the verge of despair. How great was the humiliation when one who stood beside me heard the distant sound of a shepherd's pipe, and I heard nothing or heard the shepherd singing, and I heard nothing. ![]()
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