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Franz Liszt
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By James Huneker 16 Apr, 2019
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Franz Liszt remarked to a disciple of his: "Once Liszt helped Wagner, but who now will help Liszt?" This was said in 1874 when Liszt was well advanced in years when his fame as a piano virtuoso and his name as a composer were well-nigh eclipsed by th ... Read more
Franz Liszt remarked to a disciple of his: "Once Liszt helped Wagner, but who now will help Liszt?" This was said in 1874 when Liszt was well advanced in years when his fame as a piano virtuoso and his name as a composer were well-nigh eclipsed by the growing glory of Wagner—truly a glory he had helped to create. In youth, an Orpheus pursued by the musical Maenads of Europe, in old age Liszt was a Merlin dealing in white magic, still followed by the Viviens. The story of his career is as romantic as any by Balzac. And the end of it all—after a half-century and more of fire and flowers, of proud, brilliant music-making—was tragical. Less
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James Huneker
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James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great miss...
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