Music of Hungary fiddlers Csaba Ökrös and Balázs Vizeli, cimbalomist Kálmán Balogh, violinist Félix Lajkó (from Subotica in Serbia) and multi-instrumentalist Mihály Dresch. Hungary's most important contribution to the worldwide field of European classical music is probably Franz Liszt, a renowned pianist in his own time and a well-regarded composer of 19 "Hungarian Rhapsodies" and a number of symphonic poems such as "Les préludes". Liszt was among the major composers during the late 19th century, a time when modern Hungarian classical music was in its formative stage. Along with Liszt and his French Romantic tendencies, Ferenc Erkel's Italian and French-style operas, with Hungarian
Concerto for solo piano The Slovak composer Ján Zimmer wrote, in addition to seven concertos for piano and orchestra, a "Concerto for Piano without orchestra", op. 23 (1955/1956). The piano concertos nos. 4 and 6 of Michael Finnissy are pieces for solo piano. John White has described his Piano Sonata No. 152 as a concerto for solo piano. Concerto for solo piano While a concerto is generally a piece for an instrument or instruments with orchestral accompaniment, some works for piano alone have been written with the seemingly contradictory designation concerto for solo piano. Although various "concert" pieces have been written across history (such