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| Liszt's Piano | ||
| 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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| Frederick Chopin | ||
| 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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| Chopin Midi Files | ||
| 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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| Franz Liszt | ||
| This site offers a timeline, biography, and other information on the life and work of Franz Liszt. ( http://www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt.html ) | ||
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| Liszt Sound Files | ||
| 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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| Chopin Sound Files | ||
| This site offers a bio and sound files of the piano music of Chopin. ( http://www.pianosociety.com/index.php?id=9 ) | ||
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| Death and Transcendence in Chopin, Rachmaninov | ||
| 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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| Liszt and St. Francis | ||
| 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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| Brahms Piano Music | ||
| 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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