Lina Ramann (July 24, 1833 – March 30, 1912) was a German writer and teacher known for her books on the
Hungarian composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...
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 ...
. Between 1874 and Liszt's death in 1886, she interviewed him and had access to all of his manuscripts and publications in his library. She wrote his authorized biography and the first in-depth critical analysis of his works, all of which were published in three volumes as ''Franz Liszt als Künstler und Mensch'' ("Franz Liszt, the artist and man") between 1880 and 1894.
1833 births
1912 deaths
German biographers
German women biographers
19th-century German women writers
19th-century German writers
Liszt scholars
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