Lisztomania was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and the term was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on April 25, 1844. The term was not used in the same way that Beatlemania was used to describe the Beatles in 20th-century America. It is now known that the term is a misnomer.
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Lisztomania was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and the term was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on April 25, 1844. Heine wrote a series of musical feuilletons over several different music seasons discussing the music of the day. Instead of the intense emotion generated towards The Beatles in the 20th century, Liszomania has been described as one of the annals of furore in the annal of music. The term was not used in the same way that Beatlemania was used to describe the Beatles in 20th-century America. It was coined by Heine to describe an outpouring of emotion that accompanied LiszT and his performances in Paris in 1844, and was later used in other parts of Europe after 1842.
It is now known that the term is a misnomer, as the term ‘Beatlemania’ has been used to refer to a different phenomenon, such as the Beatles’ ‘Beatlesmania’ in the 1960s and ’70s. It has also been suggested that the word ‘LisZt’ means ‘lover’ or ‘fan’ in German, but this is not supported by any source of data. The word was used in reference to a group of students in Berlin who serenaded the composer with a performance of his song ‘Rheinweinlied’ on December 27, 1841, at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin to an enthusiastic crowd. This performance would later be marked as the beginning of Lisz tomania, which would sweep generally across all of Europe.
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