Hungarian Fantasy (Liszt) Hungarian Fantasy (Liszt) The Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies (German: "Fantasie über ungarische Volksmelodien", Hungarian: "Fantázia magyar népi dallamokkal"), commonly known in short form simply as the Hungarian Fantasy, is Franz Liszt's arrangement for piano and orchestra of his Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14, originally for solo piano. The Fantasia was written in 1852 and premiered in Pest on June 1, 1853, with Hans von Bülow as soloist and Ferenc Erkel conducting the orchestra. During Liszt's lifetime, his Hungarian Rhapsodies were among his most popular works. Because of this popularity, he may have been under pressure to produce versions of them
Alan Richardson (composer) Piano at the Royal Academy of Music in 1960, a position he held until his death in 1978. Richardson composed many pieces for piano, as well as some chamber music, including several works for the oboe which he wrote for his wife. He died, aged 74, in London. Alan Richardson (composer) Alan Richardson (29 February 1904 – 29 November 1978) was a Scottish pianist and composer. Richardson was born in Edinburgh, where he worked for some time as a pianist for the BBC before going to London to study piano and composition, from 1929 to 1930, with Harold Craxton at