Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a great piano virtuoso and an estimable composer.
[For last year's limericks on Liszt click here.]
If we believe what the newspapers said,
Young women would fight for a shred
Of his hankies or gloves,
Though such pushings and shoves
Would not be considered well bred.
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Facing the Challenge
A pianist who's got any skill
Will practice and practice until
They can thunder with ease
Through the Liszt Rhapsodíes
For a potent vertiginous thrill.
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Either
With Liszt we get highs, we get lows;
We can choose from his these and his those;
He can be meretricious
Or sublimely ambitious, --
And I wonder which stance was the pose.
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