# Portrait of Franz Liszt [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BARABÁS, Miklós]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 132 x 102 cm ## Commentary Franz Liszt \(1811-1886\), Hungarian-born pianist and composer. A Romantic icon and one of the first proponents of the orchestral tone poem, he was an unparalleled keyboard virtuoso and a supremely talented and innovative composer. He was also renowned as a mercurial personality and bandit of love; in short, like the flamboyant violinist Niccolò Paganini, Liszt lived the Romantic ideal to the hilt. Listen to an <A HREF="liszt\_f.html" onClick="w=window.open \('/music/19\_cent/liszt/tarantel.html', 'newWin','scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=no,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=300'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">example</A> of Liszt's piano music. ## Related artworks - [Count István Széchenyi]() - [Pigeon-post]() - [Portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I]() - [Portrait of János Buttler]() - [Portrait of József Eötvös]() - [Rumanian Family Going to the Fair]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()