Count Leó Festetics de Tolna (8 October 1800, Pécs, Hungary15 November 1884), was a patron of music and an amateur composer, from a prominent Croatian Hungarian family, Festetics.Festetics Leó, gr.
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Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

, who dedicated to him his

Hungarian Rhapsody The Hungarian Rhapsodies, S.244, R.106 (french: Rhapsodies hongroises, german: Ungarische Rhapsodien, hu, Magyar rapszódiák), is a set of 19 piano pieces based on Hungarian folk themes, composed by Franz Liszt during 1846–1853, and late ...

No. 13 in A minor (1847, pub. 1853). Liszt based his ''Spanisches Ständchen'' (S. 487) on a melody provided by Count Festetics. In 1856, Festetics published his designs for a theatre ( British Library collection).

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