In 1831 Liszt heard him play violin & tried to re-create that virtuosity for piano with a fantasia
... virtuoso of 
the day and an admirer of Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt played it .... That he was a 
giant at the piano is undisputed but only those who had the unique fortune to 
hear him in... [DOC] [TLE] Gabriel Faur - Wikipedia [PAR] Gabriel Urbain Faur was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.