Editing Franz Liszt (section)

=== Instruments ===
[[File:FranzLisztPiano.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|One of Franz Liszt's pianos from his apartment in Budapest]]

After arriving in Paris in 1823, [[Sébastien Érard]] presented Liszt with a grand piano featuring his newly patented double escapement mechanism, a key development in piano technology allowing for faster note repetition.{{sfn|Walker|1973|pp=24-25}} Among the composer's pianos in Weimar were an Érard, a [[C. Bechstein|Bechstein]], the Beethovens' [[John Broadwood & Sons|Broadwood]] grand and a [[Boisselot & Fils|Boisselot]]. It is known that Liszt used Boisselot pianos in his Portugal tour{{sfn|Walker|1987|p=409}} and then later in 1847 in a tour to Kiev and Odessa. Liszt kept the piano at his Villa Altenburg residence in Weimar.{{sfn|Walker|1987b|p=77}}

The earliest records of Liszt playing the organ date from 1836. He developed an interest in J. S. Bach's organ music in the early 1840s, probably due to Mendelssohn's influence. Later, Liszt commissioned a "piano-organ" from the Paris company Alexandre Père et Fils. The instrument was made in 1854 under Berlioz's supervision, using an 1853 Érard piano, and was a combination of piano and harmonium with three manuals and a pedal board.{{sfn|Domokos|2019}} The company called it a "Liszt piano-harmonium" and installed it in Villa Altenburg in July 1854;{{sfn|Pocknell|2000|p=68}} the instrument is now exhibited in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde collection in Vienna.{{sfn|Domokos|2019}}

Liszt owned two other organs which were installed later in his Budapest residence. The first was a "piano-orgue": this was a smaller version of Weimar's instrument, a combination of a 1864 Érard piano and a harmonium, with two independent manuals, the upper for the piano and lower for the harmonium, built again by Alexandre Père et Fils in 1865. The second was a "cabinet organ", a large concert harmonium built by the American company [[Mason & Hamlin]] and given to Liszt in 1877.{{sfn|Domokos|2019}}