A bronze plaque adorning the ground floor level of the main façade of the former palace of Leopold de Pauli (now the seat of the University Library in Bratislava) at 11 Ventúrska Street commemorates Franz Liszt (1811–1886), a world-renowned and exceptionally prolific composer and piano virtuoso, who is said to have performed in the adjacent garden, now named Liszt Garden, in 1820. 

The commemorative plaque was unveiled on 22 October 1961 to mark the 150th anniversary of Liszt's birth and was created by the sculptor P. Chrťan. Shaped as a horizontal rectangle, it features a stylised relief of Liszt's head in profile on the left, and an abstract protruding quadrangular field with several horizontal grooves in the upper right corner. Between the relief and field is the three-dimensional majuscule information: 

IN THIS HOUSE 

IN 1820, FRANZ LISZT 

GAVE A CONCERT 

AS A NINE-YEAR-OLD 

THIS CONCERT MARKED THE BEGINNING 

OF HIS TRIUMPHANT CAREER. 

Below the relief are embossed numbers referring to the years of birth and death of the great artist: 

1811–1886 

In Liszt Garden, surrounded by buildings and bounded by Ventúrska, Prepoštská, Kapitulská, Farská, and Podjazd streets, stand both a historic pavilion named after this famous artist and a bronze sculpture depicting Liszt in contemplation, created in a slightly larger-than-life size by the sculptor Ján Kulich in 1963. 

The city, honoured by Liszt's multiple visits, also commemorates him by renaming after him an urban space that until 2012 was called Station Square. 

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Research status as of 22. 12. 2023.