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On 9 June 1840, a year or so into his European tour, Liszt<\/a> hosted the first of two London concerts \u2013 advertised as \u2018Liszt\u2019s Pianoforte Recitals\u2019 \u2013 at the Hanover Square Rooms in Mayfair. The piano recital was born…<\/strong><\/p> This was the first time the word recital had been used in terms of music. Until then, the word \u2018recital\u2019 had only been used to describe dramatic readings, which is perhaps why Liszt was drawn to the word. In the past, his solo concerts bore the curious name \u2018musical soliloquies\u2019.<\/p> Liszt was back on the touring circuit as a pianist in 1839 to help fundraise for a statue of Beethoven<\/a><\/strong> in Bonn. He had just emerged from an intense period of composition and was alarmed to hear that plans for the statue were under threat through lack of financial support. <\/p> For his London appearance, Liszt put together a programme that combined his own works with transcriptions of well-known masterpieces. This included his own arrangements of Beethoven symphonies<\/a><\/strong> and Schubert<\/a><\/strong> songs. He also included Hexameron<\/i>, a collaborative work pieced together from music by Chopin<\/a><\/strong>, Czerny, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz and Liszt himself.<\/p>How Liszt invented the term piano recital…<\/h2>