Discusses the life and career of the nineteenth-century Hungarian composer, pianist, concert promoter, and conductor.

Liszt feels something is missing in his life. When he meets Josy, a naturally gifted young Gypsy street musician, he wagers that he can turn Josy into a world-class musician. The bet turns into a mighty struggle of wills.

A biography of the Hungarian pianist and composer who began his career with a piano recital at age nine. Includes examples and analyses of his work.

Emil von Sauer carried the torch of the Romantic piano repertoire well into the twentieth century. He won the French Legion of Honor, The Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, and Austrian peerage, among many other honors. He edited all of Brahms's piano compositions, much of Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, and some Beethoven. A brilliant pianist, prolific composer, and noted pedagogue, Sauer founded the Vienna Conservatory Piano Master School....

Leonard Bernstein earned glory as a composer, conductor, and pianist (classical and jazz), but nothing gave him more pleasure than the joy of teaching. He presented the unique blend of spoken words and music. He is an intensely interactive teacher, getting his audience to sing, springing a quiz full of trick questions. He can take the most abstruse subject and present them to a young audience with clarity, without condescension, and with a clear sense...