{"id":4004,"date":"2011-01-18T19:25:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T01:23:09","slug":"franz-liszt-200th-birthday-anniversary-dresden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/classical-music-and-operas\/franz-liszt-200th-birthday-anniversary-dresden","title":{"rendered":"Franz Liszt \u2013 200th Birthday Anniversary Events in Dresden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Franz Liszt<\/strong> first visited <strong>Dresden <\/strong>in 1840 he was hailed as the <em>\u2018pop star\u2019<\/em> of piano music.  It&#8217;s no wonder that Franz Liszt fell in love in Dresden.<\/p>\n<p>In 1844 Liszt travelled to Dresden with the dancer Lola Montez, with whom he had a passionate affair. Dresden is also where Liszt made the acquaintance of conductor <strong>Hans von B\u00fclow<\/strong> (who was born in this city) and <strong>Richard Wagner<\/strong>. First von B\u00fclow, and then later Wagner, married Liszt&#8217;s daughter Cosima.<\/p>\n<p>So, with all of Liszt&#8217;s Dresden connections, it&#8217;s fitting that the city of Dresden should join the music world in celebrating the <strong>200th birthday anniversary<\/strong> of this great composer and piano virtuoso in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Dresden State Orchestra of Saxony, the Dresden Philharmonic, Dresden Music Festival and the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden (named after another great composer) will all be honouring this great composer with numerous concerts featuring <strong>music by Franz Liszt<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Franz_Liszt_1858.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4008\" style=\"margin: 20px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Franz_Liszt_1858\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Franz_Liszt_1858.jpg?resize=226%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Semper Opera House, for instance, Christian Thielemann will conduct Liszt\u2019s symphonic masterpiece<em> \u2018A Faust Symphony\u2019 <\/em>at a special concert marking the 200th anniversary of the composer\u2019s birth. The program opens with <em>\u2018A Faust Overture\u2019 <\/em>by Richard Wagner.\u00a0 Wagner, the former court director of music in Dresden, maintained a lively correspondence with Liszt on the subject of Faust, before becoming his son-in-law despite being only two years his junior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts:<\/strong><br \/>\nwww.semperoper.de<br \/>\nwww.dresdnerphilharmonie.de<br \/>\nwww.musikfestspiele.com<br \/>\nwww.hfmdd.de<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booking.com\/searchresults.html?city=-1761619&amp;ssne=Dresden&amp;error_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Faid%3D322131%3Bsid%3D5f73d85eb78810524f230db50dc6aea9%3Bcity%3D-1761619%3Bclass_interval%3D1%3Bidf%3D1%3Boffset%3D0%3Bscore_min%3D0%3Bsi%3Dai%252Cco%252Cci%252Cre%252Cdi%3Bcountry%3Dde%3Bradius%3D8%3B&amp;aid=322131&amp;sid=5f73d85eb78810524f230db50dc6aea9&amp;si=ai%2Cco%2Cci%2Cre%2Cdi&amp;ss=Dresden&amp;radius=2&amp;checkin_monthday=0&amp;checkin_year_month=0&amp;checkout_monthday=0&amp;checkout_year_month=0&amp;idf=on\" target=\"_blank\">You can search for <strong>Dresden hotels<\/strong>, read hotel reviews and and book your Dresden hotel here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Franz Liszt first visited Dresden in 1840 he was hailed as the \u2018pop star\u2019 of piano music. 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