In 1831 Liszt heard him play violin & tried to re-create that virtuosity for piano with a fantasia
... in a symphonic manner it creates a tone picture, in which the 
piano plays the... [DOC] [TLE] Crescendo of the Virtuoso - UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 [PAR] There was a struggle every night between him and a famous player on the ..... 
some accused him of doing it deliberately, in order to recreate the sort of 
sensation he ...