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How many compositions did Franz Liszt write?

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Franz Liszt was a prolific creator, having written more than 700 compositions during his career. As a central figure in the Romantic movement, he revolutionized musical composition by extending piano techniques, inventing the symphonic poem, and developing innovative harmonic languages that influenced the evolution of music into the 20th century.1