His brilliant concert tours in Switzerland and England enhanced an already established reputation. His one act opera, 'Don Sanche', as well as his piano compositions, achieved a flattering success. His studies, however, under Reicha and Paer, were of a character that made the youthful prodigy one of the conspicuous figures of the French capital.

His entry to the Paris Conservatory, where his father wished him to continue his studies, and which at the time was under Cherubini, proved unsuccessful on account of his not being a native of France.

From Beethoven, who was present, down to the merest dilettante, everyone forthwith acknowledged his great genius. His first public appearance in Vienna (1 Jan., 1823) proved a noteworthy event in the annals of music. Taken to Vienna by his father, who devoted himself exclusively to the development of his talented child, he studied the piano for six years with Czerny, and theory and composition with Salieri and Randhartinger. His first public appearance at Oedenburg at the age of nine was so startling a character, that several Hungarian magnates who were present at once assumed the financial responsibilities of his further musical education. His musical precocity was early recognized by his parents, and his first teacher was his father, Adam Liszt, a musical amateur of rare culture. Admittedly the greatest pianist in the annals of music, and a composer whose status in musical literature still forms a debatable question, b.

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