All the Necessary Attributes
Stephen Walsh: Franz Liszt, Celebrity, 22 September 2016
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 353 pp., £25, June 2016,978 0 300 18293 4 Show More
by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 353 pp., £25, June 2016,
“... them all, but Wagner generated more discussion, and more distaste. Few people would nominate Franz Liszt, because it’s usual to confuse importance with quality. Liszt was probably not the greatest composer of his time, yet his presence was everywhere in musical life from the moment that he arrived in Paris as a ... ”