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He was active in Berlin beginning in about 1900 in the Progressive People's Party and was a member of the City Council of Charlottenburg until 1908, when he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives. In addition to the scientific aspect of the law, practical public policy also appealed to him. He also founded the so-called 'Marburg School' of criminal law, asserting that crime must be essentially looked upon as a social phenomenon. In 1882, while in Marburg, he held his first seminar on criminology and continued to work on building the scientific journal covering the entire field of criminal justice. In his 20 years there, he devoted himself almost exclusively to criminal law. In 1874, Liszt, having earned a law degree and a Ph.D., quickly sought a university teaching career, which took him in 1876 to Graz, Marburg (from 1882), Halle (from 1889) and finally in 1898, at the peak of his career, to the largest law faculty of the Empire in Berlin, where he taught criminal law, international law and jurisprudence. Liszt studied law in 1869 in Vienna, having among his teachers Rudolf von Ihering, who influenced him fundamentally in his views of the law and whose views he later transferred into criminal law. The composer actually never used the title in public. After the marriage fell through, the composer transferred the title to his uncle Eduard, the father of the subject of this article, in 1867 when he received the Minor Orders of the Catholic Church.

The composer needed the title to marry the Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, so he solicited the nobilitation which was conceded by the emperor in recognition of his services to Austria. The Austrian title of nobility Ritter was awarded to the composer Franz Liszt in 1859 by the Emperor Francis Joseph I. The composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt was Franz von Liszt's cousin and also acted as his godfather. Eduard von Liszt's second wife was Henriette Wolf (1825–1920), whom he married on 24 January 1859 in Vienna. Karolina, who was Eduard von Liszt's first wife, was born in Çilli, Turkey, and died of cholera in Vienna in 1854. Franz von Liszt's mother was Karolina Pickhart (aka Caroline Pickhardt) (1827–1854). From 1898 until 1917, he was Professor of Criminal Law and International Law at the University of Berlin and was also a member of the Progressive People's Party in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies and the Reichstag.įranz von Liszt's father was Eduard Ritter von Liszt (1817–1879), a lawyer who had completed a brilliant civil service career as the head of the newly created Austrian General Prosecutor's Office. As a legal scholar, he was a proponent of the modern sociological and historical school of law. Legend has it that Beethoven kissed Liszt on the brow after the young boy played him his Archduke Piano Trio from memory with the missing violin and cello parts incorporated as he went along.Franz Eduard Ritter von Liszt (2 March 1851 – 21 June 1919) was a German jurist, criminologist and international law reformer. July 1886 he died from dropsy complicated by pneumonia.

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The rest of his life was dominated by a series of inspired sacred compositions, while his piano music became more calmly reflective and meditative in tone.Īctive to the end, even in 1886 (the year of his death) Liszt was on a tour which embraced his first visit to London in more than 40 years. Such was his devotion to the church that Pope Pius IX conferred on him the title of ‘Abbé’ four years later.

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In 1848, Liszt accepted a full-time professional post in Weimar where he increasingly turned his attention towards composing. He started every performance by ceremoniously removing a pair of white gloves and he invariably employed a second piano on stage so that onlookers could admire his prowess from every conceivable angle.

Some particularly horrific scenes during the Paris cholera epidemic of 1832 so moved him that he once spent all night thrashing out the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) chant on the piano.īetween 18 Liszt gave well over a thousand concerts throughout most of western Europe, Turkey, Poland and Russia, stunning audiences wherever he went with his blend of pianistic devilry and showbiz razzmatazz.

Liszt developed a morbid obsession with death in the 1830s. Liszt’s early progress was so astounding that by the age of nine he had already mastered Ferdinand Ries’s excruciatingly difficult E flat major Piano Concerto. Liszt’s output for solo piano was prodigious, centered on a core of more than 100 original titles, many of which subdivide into sets of half-a-dozen pieces or more. His compositions inspired a whole generation of keyboard virtuosi. Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was one of the most important composers of the Romantic period.