This site offers a view Liszt's own érard piano and a beautiful recording of his Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este performed on it by its current owner, Carlo Dominici. (
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={9E1DC9F1-13B2-11D5-93F0-00902...
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This Polish site offers a great amount of biographical information, photos, documents, and sound files regarding the life and work of Chopin. (
http://www.chopin.pl/spis_tresci/index_en.html#Zycie
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This site has an enormous amount of Chopin piano works available on Midi sound files. Not the best for listening but a good thematic study. (
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2217/midi.htm
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This site includes a brief bio on Liszt along with sound files that are worth the bit of extra time downloading because they are on original instruments. (
http://www.pianosociety.com/index.php?id=62
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This radio broadcast discusses the themes of death in the piano music of Chopin and Rachmaninov, with commentary and great playing by the French pianist Helène Grimaud. (
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4625296
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This site offers a radio program about Franz Liszt and how his faith found its way into his music. It focuses on one work, Legend: St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, describing it as program music. It also offers additional information on the life of Liszt. (
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1121535
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This site includes some wonderful sound files of another great piano composer of the Romantic Period, Johannes Brahms. (
http://innig.net/music/inthehands/category/recordings/brahms/
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