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St Elizabeth of Hungary

09. 10. 2024.

Liszt: The Legend of St Elizabeth

From the autumn of 1861, Liszt spent more and more time in Rome, where his interest turned towards church music. In 1862 he completed his first oratorio, The Legend of St Elizabeth. Liszt had long been intrigued by the life of the Hungarian...

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Vasily Petrenko Photographer: Svetlana Tarlova
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Photographer: Chris Christodoulou
József Balog Photographer: László Emmer

11. 10. 2024.

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

After standing at the helm of the Liverpool Philharmonic for fifteen years, Vasili Petrenko took over as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) in 2021. Founded in 1946, the renowned ensemble is one of the most active symphony...

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Choir Marathon Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Choir Marathon of Liszt’s Works

Liszt’s experiences in Rome had a profound influence on his choral art. As early as 1839, he was fascinated by the musical practice at the Cappella Sistina, and he really intensively studied the repertoire itself between 1861 and 1865....

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Magnificat Girls' Choir

12. 10. 2024.

Magnificat Girls' Choir

Liszt was one of the most prolific composers of church music in the second half of the 19th century, especially from 1860 on, when he spent much of his time in Rome. He composed more than fifty choral works, both with and without accompaniment,...

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ELTE Béla Bartók Choir

12. 10. 2024.

Eötvös Loránd University Bartók Béla Choir

In 1879, Emil Ábrányi published an expansive study on Ferenc Liszt, underlining that the composer was the most important creator of modern church music. ‘He has made use of all the achievements of modern music, and in doing so, instead of...

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Choir marathon of Liszt’s works Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Béla Bartók Male Choir

When in 1848, after a long time, Liszt returned to his birthplace, Doborján (Raiding), he also visited the Franciscan priest, Stanislaus (Szaniszló) Albach, who served in Kismarton (Eisenstadt). This was where he started composing his Mass for male...

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Choir marathon of Liszt’s works Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

The participation of the Vass Lajos Chamber Choir during the Mass

In the 1860s, Ferenc Liszt was a regular guest in Rome. He stayed at the monastery on Monte Mario, and in the middle of the decade he joined the Franciscans, reaching the fourth degree of the order. This was a period when ‘Abbé...

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Choir marathon of Liszt’s works Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Alma Mater Chorus and the New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir

Anton Bruckner, the bicentenary of whose birth is celebrated by the music world this year, was wholeheartedly idolizing his older colleague, Ferenc Liszt. They met in person only very late, in 1885, in Vienna. Brahms had made Liszt’s...

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Ferenc Liszt Photographer: Lithography by Edgar Hanfstaengl, cca. 1869

18. 10. 2024.

Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera’s Liszt Concert

The Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera and its acting artistic director, György Selmeczi bring a programme to Budapest that fills a long-felt need. The compositions in the concert programme offer a particularly striking testimony to the complexity of the...

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Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie Photographer: Andrej Grilc

22. 10. 2024.

Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie

The contradictory social situation of the artist, the elusiveness of success, the workings of creative inspiration or the responsibility of the genius are general artistic and aesthetic problems that essentially defined Ferenc Liszt’s...

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