With music lessons at home and/or music school to back them up, all these pianists became great composers. Two, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, had the same tutor, Nikolai Zverev, at the same time. Living with their strict tutor, four boys in all spent three hours in the morning for piano practice, composition, and theory, and the afternoon for academics. Chopin and Liszt lived a few blocks from each other in Paris and performed together, but they were opposites. Chopin was shy and hated performing in public. Liszt's dramatic entrances captivated the ladies. He is the one who had the piano cut away at both ends of the keyboard (what we see today) so that all could see his hands going up and down the keys, and you can hear it in that short piece. In spite of his sex appeal, Liszt became a Franciscan tertiary, and on July 31, 1865, he received the four minor orders of porter, lector, exorcist, and acolyte. After ordination, he was often called Abbé Liszt. Rubinstein demonstrates development of the left hand is essential. Schubert composed a Mass, missa brevis, in less than a week. Two quick notes stand out in the Grieg piece. Mozart played for Marie Antoinette. Beethoven went deaf. Here is a young Liszt. Heritage Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images
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