Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer at Konzerthaus Berlin

About the Event

Experience classical music like never before in this astonishing performance of masterworks by Liszt at Berlin's remarkable Konzerthaus Berlin.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra, which Ivan Fischer co‐founded in 1983, returns a visit by the Konzerthausorchester Berlin to the Hungarian capital on the occasion of 'Bridging Europe — Budapest Berlin'.

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor of the 19th century Romantic era. He was well‐known for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist all over Europe. In fact, he was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School Neudeutsche Schule as a composer. Over the course of his career he created extensive and diverse bodies of works that influenced contemporaries and anticipated many 20th‐century ideas and trends. For instance, his most notable musical contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, making radical departures in harmony and developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form.