Franz Liszt student Hans von Bülow
Liszt's students
Early students
From 1827 onwards, Liszt gave lessons in composition and piano playing. He wrote on 23 December 1829 that his schedule was so full of lessons that each day, from half-past eight in the morning till 10 at night, he had scarcely breathing time. Most of Liszt's students of this period were amateurs, but there were also some who made a professional career. An example of the former is Valérie Boissier, the later Comtesse de Gasparin. Examples of the latter are Julius Eichberg, Pierre Wolff, and Hermann Cohen. During winter 1835–36, they were Liszt's colleagues at the Conservatoire at Geneva. Wolff then went to Saint Petersburg.
During the years of his tours, Liszt gave only a few lessons, to students including Johann Nepumuk Dunkl and Wilhelm von Lenz. In spring 1844, in Dresden, Liszt met the young Hans von Bülow, his later son-in-law.Later students
After Liszt settled in Weimar, his pupils steadily increased in number. By his death in 1886, there would have been several hundred people who in some sense could have been regarded as his students. August Göllerich published a voluminous catalogue of them. In a note he added the remark that he had taken the connotation of "student" in its widest sense. As a consequence, his catalog includes names of pianists, violinists, cellists, harpists, organists, composers, conductors, singers, and even writers.
A catalog by Ludwig Nohl was approved and corrected by Liszt in September 1881. This gave 48 names, including:
Carl Baermann,
Franz Bendel,
Hans von Bronsart,
Hans von Bülow,
Julius Eichberg,
Arthur Friedheim,
Karl Klindworth,
William Mason,
Sophie Menter,
Karl Pohlig,
Dionys Pruckner,
Julius Reubke,
Eduard Reuss,
Giovanni Sgambati,
Karl Tausig,
Vera Timanova,
Józef Wieniawski,
Alexander Winterberger, and
Juliusz Zarębski. Nohl's catalog omitted, amongst others, Károly Aggházy and Agnes Street-Klindworth.
By 1886, a similar catalogue would have been much longer, including names such as Eugen d'Albert,
Conrad Ansorge,
Walter Bache,
William Dayas,
August Göllerich,
Carl Lachmund,
José Vianna da Motta,
Moriz Rosenthal,
Emil Sauer,
Alexander Siloti,
Bernhard Stavenhagen,
August Stradal,
István Thomán,
and
Bettina Walker.Some of Liszt's students were disappointed with him. An example is Eugen d'Albert, who eventually was almost on hostile terms with Liszt. Felix Draeseke, who had joined the circle around Liszt at Weimar in 1857, is another example.
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