humusic1-3, Exercise 1: Liszt, Hungarian or not?

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In what sense Hungarian:
1. Born in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1811 and always described himself as Hungarian, even though he lived elsewhere.
2. He supported Hungarian causes, for example benefit concerts in 1838 and the founding of the music academy in Budapest, and wrote Hungarian-themed works such as the Rhapsodies and Hungaria.

In what sense not:
1. He grew up in a German-speaking family, spoke little Hungarian and left as a child, building his career in Vienna, Paris, Weimar and Rome.
2. His "Hungarian" music drew on the urban Roma-band style and published tunes, not on peasant folk song, and he wrote it as an international virtuoso for a European public.

The answer shows that national labels in music cover several things: birth, language, identity, residence, and the sources of the music.