Franz Liszt
| Franz Liszt was a Hungarian pianist and composer of classical music and freemason (Unity Lodge in Frankfurt) used in program Romanticism and pop star culture (Lisztomania, term coined by Heinrich Heine) He was a friend of Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin (James Rothschild as patron), Moriz and Mordecai Rosenthal. He trained Bela Bartok. His daughter Cosima Liszt married Hans von Bülow (teacher of Richard Strauss) and Richard Wagner, friends of mason Friedrich Nietzsche who the end of his life he called himself Dionysus and Antichrist. Wagner's patron was Ludwig II Wittelsbach, King of Bavaria who built his Neuschwanstein in honour of Wagner. |  |
Cosima's daughter, Eva Wagner married Houston Stewart Chamberlain who wrote The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Aryan race as superior, inspiration for Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century).
He composed a piece named Orpheus.
Like Wagner's son, his cousin Franz von Liszt signed the Manifesto of the 93 (most important number in Thelema) to support Germany in WW1 with Adolf von Bayer, Gerhart Hauptmann, Lujo Brentano, Paul Ehrlich, Ernst Haeckel, Fritz Haber, Felix Klein, Max Liebermann, Max Reinhardt, Eduard Meyer, Wilhelm Ostwald, Max Planck, Alois Riehl, Wilhelm Röntgen, Wilhelm Wundt,...
His godson Frank Damrosch founded the Julliard School with Ernest Hutchinson (student of Liszt's student Bernard Stavenhagen).
born 10/22/1811.
died 7/31/1886.