Correspondance de Liszt et de Madame dAgoult 1840-1864 (Littérature) (French Edition)

In de Tiet van 1. Oktober , Liszt sien Geburtsdag, weer in en Kark in Rom de Hochtiet plant. Dree wiedere Weihen geev dat noch dornah. He schreev dorto in en Breef: Eerst wurrn de Beziehungen langsam weer beter. Gemeensam geev man en Konzert in dat Teatro la Fenice. As he afreist is, weer he aber all swoor krank.

August up den Bayreuther Stadtkarkhoff bisett. En systematisch Warkverteken hett de engelsch Musikwetenschapler Humphrey Searle tosommenstellt un keem up Titel ahn de literarischen Warken:. Man hett dat mit en musikaalsch gestalt Familienalbum to doon. De tweete Band mit de Leeder "Oh! De Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth un dat Oratorium Christus wurrn bit in dat In a review in the Leipziger Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung , [36] Thalberg was described as Liszt's only rival. In winter —, Thalberg gave concerts in Italy, while Liszt , from end of December until beginning of March , gave a series of concerts in Berlin.

Thalberg matched Liszt's successes in Berlin. On the next day he gave his first, and on 21 April his second concert. According to an account by Berlioz , Thalberg made a profit of 12, Francs from his first, and of 13, Francs from his second concert. The concerts were reviewed in the Revue et Gazette musicale by Henri Blanchard who two years before, in his review of Liszt's concert on 20 April , had nominated Thalberg as Cesar, Octavian or Napoleon of the piano.

In spring , Blanchard reached for new superlatives even surpassing his former ones. In his review of Thalberg's second concert he wrote, Thalberg would in years have been canonized, and by all coming pianists be invoked with name of Holy Thalberg. According to the account by Berlioz, at the end of Thalberg's second concert a golden crown was thrown to the stage.

In addition to his own concerts, Thalberg took part in a concert of Emile Prudent. He then travelled via Brussels to London. In the second half of November until 12 December , he made a further tour in Great Britain, [39] and in January he returned to Paris. At end of March he performed at a private concert of Pierre Erard, but this was his only concert appearance during that season.

In March Heinrich Heine wrote about Thalberg:. His performance is so gentlemanly, so entirely without any forced acting the genius, so entirely without that well-known brashness that makes a poor cover for inner insecurity. Healthy women love him. So do sickly women, even though he does not engage their sympathy by epileptic seizures at the piano, even though he does not play at their overstrung, delicate nerves, even though he neither electrifies them nor galvanizes them.

In winter —44 Thalberg gave concerts in Italy again. At end of March he returned to Paris, where at the same time also Liszt was expected. Liszt arrived on April 8 and gave on 16 April a first concert, at which he played his Norma-fantasy , published shortly before. When composing his fantasy, Liszt had put many Thalberg-effects to it. As I met Thalberg, I said to him: Shortly after Liszt's concert on 11 May , Thalberg left Paris.

He travelled to London and gave a concert there on 28 May At a further concert in London he played a concerto for three pianos by J. Bach together with Moscheles and Mendelssohn. In August he returned to Paris where he stayed until During the winter —45 he gave a piano course for selected students at the Paris Conservatoire.

In spring , in Vienna, Liszt met Thalberg once more. On 3 May Thalberg gave a benefit concert which Liszt attended. According to an account by his pupil Nepomuk Dunkl, Liszt was sitting on the stage, carefully listening and loudly applauding. In , after Thalberg's operas Florinda and Cristina di Svezia had failed, he realized his ambition to give concerts in America. He returned to Europe, but after a stay of several months in Paris went on the steamboat Africa to North America, where he arrived on 3 October , in New York. After Thalberg's debut there on 10 November , a performance marathon ensued, during which he spent eight months giving concerts 5 or 6 days a week.

Occasionally he gave two or even three concerts a day. On 15 September he gave another concert in New York, starting his second season. With very few intermissions he was busy until his last concert on 12 June , in Peoria , IL. By then he had visited nearly 80 cities and given more than regular concerts in the United States and 20 concerts in Canada.

In addition, he gave at least twenty free concerts for many thousands of schoolchildren. Thalberg also gave a series of solo matinees in New York and Boston at which he played own works as well as chamber music. From , the violinist Henri Vieuxtemps toured with Thalberg.

They played works by Beethoven, and Duos composed by Thalberg. Thalberg's financial success on these tours was immense.

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On rising from the piano, he was always the same quiet, respectable, self-possessed, middle-aged gentleman that he was at the dinner table of his hotel. His cadenza to Beethoven's third concerto was admired. He also played works by Bach , Chopin , Hummel , Mendelssohn and several other composers. The "unexpected close" referred to the announcement in June in Chicago that Thalberg would make only one of three scheduled appearances before immediately returning to Europe. In fact, Thalberg did not even perform at that concert, but very hastily left.

His wife had arrived from Europe, following reports that Thalberg had an extra-marital liaison. The true reason why Francesca Thalberg had left for America in June and shortly afterwards, together with her husband, very hastily returned to Europe is unknown. The death of Thalberg's father in law, Lablache , on 23 January , could be one reason.

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A further possibility is that there may have been consideration of legitimizing Thalberg to enable him to succeed his natural father Prince Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein. After Thalberg's return to Europe, he settled in Posillipo near Naples in a villa, which had belonged to Lablache. For the following four years Thalberg lived in silence there. In spring he gave concerts in Paris and London once again and was as successful as ever.

After a last tour in Brazil in [53] he put an end to his career. He suggested taking a position as piano professor at the conservatory in Naples, but it was defeated since an Italian nationality would be necessary. One year later he got an offer from the same conservatory which he refused. Vitale's claim that he published instructive editions of J. The collection was sold after Thalberg's death. Sigismond Thalberg was one of the most famous and most successful piano composers of the 19th century. During the s and the s his style was a major force in European piano-playing.

Ten years later, in , a London correspondent of the Revue et gazette musicale wrote:. Expressions like "exaggerated", "twisted" and "tortured" indicate that some contemporaries were starting to feel jaded of his style. It was at this time when Thalberg's career as composer and as virtuoso came to an end. In the late 19th century, Thalberg's fame had come to depend on his association with a single piano technique, the ' three-hand effect '. Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, in his Geschichte des Klavierspiels , wrote about this.

It is not a difficult trick, and it sounds and looks much harder than it is, but it was new in the s and it caused a sensation. Audiences were entranced, and would rise up from their seats to see how Thalberg did it. While Thalberg was still in Vienna, in the Revue et Gazette musicale of 8 January , Liszt's review of some of Thalberg's piano works appeared. Liszt claimed that in the Grande fantaisie op. Besides, already for a very long time Nourrit had ceased singing for money at concerts. Liszt himself might be allowed to ask Marie d'Agoult for reminding Monsieur d'Agoult of him and to hope, she would indicate her next return to Paris.

In October still another catastrophe occurred. Marie d'Agoult's daughter Louise fell ill. She was by her mother transported to Paris where a doctor diagnosed an inflammation of the brain. During the night of December 10 to 11, or on December 11, Louise died.

She was buried on December In autumn and winter , Liszt made the acquaintace of George Sand. In a letter to Marie d'Agoult of August 25, , he wrote, he had two days earlier met Alfred de Musset. Musset had told him much about George Sand. Liszt had asked Musset to introduce him to her when Musset for the next time met George Sand. George Sand had during winter and spring togther with Musset travelled in Italy. In February , in Venice , she had started a love affair with the doctor Roberto Pagello.

George Sand had met Musset on August George Sand and Musset started a new phase of their love affair, but new storms occurred. Around November 10, George Sand had a further break with Musset, who did not respond to her letters. Liszt and George Sand met at end of October or in the beginning of November Like Liszt himself, she was fond of Saint-Simonian ideology.

Due to the crisis in her love affaire with Musset, the voyage was cancelled. In a letter to Musset she threatened, she would commit suicide, cut her hair and enter a monastery. In a letter to Liszt of November 22, , George Sand wrote, attending the concert of Berlioz on the following day at which Liszt would perform, was absolutely impossible for her. She would therefore give back tickets for the concert. After some days of retreating she would return. Liszt, in his answer, wrote:.

On November 28, George Sand met Heine. Afterwards, in the late evening until the early morning, she had a long conversation with Liszt. On December 5, she left Paris for Nohant, arriving on December 7. It is unknown whether until then a further contact with Liszt had occurred. Liszt had been announced for a concert on November 22 at the church St. But the audience waited in vain for him.

While according to an official excuse he had been involved in repetitions for the concert of Berlioz on November 23, he neither performed at that concert. His behaviour can be understood, when looking at the present state of his relation with Marie d'Agoult. Following a traditional line of Liszt biographic, it is to be presumed that until March there was a break of six months, during which Liszt and Marie d'Agoult did not meet at all. However, a letter by Liszt, of November 29, , shows that it is not true.

We will be talking about it tomorrow. I was wearing your cravat, which seemed to me as not beeing too elegant for "Thoughtful". A motto by Lamartine was: In order to make good his not talking part on November 22 at the church St. Vincent de Paul, he had together with Urhan played the "Kreutzer-Sonata". The letter to Marie d'Agoult shows that Liszt had visited her and told her of the pieces by Urhan. On November 30, they met for a further time. In his answer to George Sand's letter of November 22, Liszt wrote, he would very voluntarily receive her in the days of tears.

While this was primarily meant as allusion to George Sand's problems regarding her affair with Musset, Liszt could as well have thought of his own situation. There is a further letter of him to Marie d'Agoult which must have been written in the second half of November At the letter's beginning Liszt wrote, since the beginning of winter , he had for a very long time hesitated to give an answer to Marie d'Agoult's last letter. For him himself, nothing had changed during the previous months.

He still would not mind opinions of the society, her family or the world. While it was exclusively a matter of God and conscience, he would willingly stand own pain and bear hers besides. But it had been her letters which were killing him. For several times the word of separation had been pronounced between them, and that word was never being used in vain. He had only a single weakness left and would promise to God that it was his very last. At an occasion of her choice, as soon as it was possible for her, they should for a last time meet again.

Since the date of that last meeting was exclusively depending on Marie d'Agoult's choice, and Liszt had to wait for a message of her, he had good reasons to regard his taking part in the concerts of November 22 and 23 as being less important for him. According to the letter of November 29, Liszt and Marie d'Agoult actually met. Liszt had reached a progress, although the letter of November 29 has nothing of a love letter style. It could as well have been written to a good friend. In early December , during the critical last phase of Louise's illness, Liszt had no chance to meet Marie d'Agoult.

He asked her chambermaid for information. According to a letter with date "Lundi minuit" "Monday, midnight" , meant as December 15, Liszt had received a letter by Marie d'Agoult, written shortly after Louise's funeral. With much astonishment as well as happiness he had read that she had always been thinking of him. However, his letter includes no hint to a further meeting being planned, and no sources indicate that during the second half of December a further meeting occurred.

But for the following three weeks he was still in Paris. On January 3, , he dined together with Marie d'Agoult. A letter to Marie d'Agoult, written in the early morning of January 4, shows that tensions must have occurred. Liszt had received a billet of Marie d'Agoult with complaints about his lack of emotions and his egoism. In the letter of January 4, Liszt assured, he had not met George Sand.

He was insofar right, but he met George Sand on January 5. George Sand had invited him and Heine for a dinner. In the letter of January 4, Liszt also wrote, he would wait for Marie d'Agoult's return. Accordingly, she had retreated to Croissy. Regarding George Sand's relation with Musset, they had in the beginning of January a phase of peace. But new problems evolved from her meeting Liszt. There were rumours, Liszt and George Sand had a love affair of a more than intimate kind. In the second half of January , in order to defend herself, George Sand tried to find Liszt whom she wanted to take as witness for her innocence.

But her search as well as two letters she wrote to him was in vain. Afterwards, for the whole period of January 15 until end of February , he had disappeared without leaving traces in direct sources of any kind. Since the beginning of March , Liszt was staying in Paris again. According to entries in his pocket calendar, he met Marie d'Agoult on March 3, 10, 15, 16, 18, 21 and After March 22, several blank pages are following. According to the letter, he had had storms of heart and mind. George Sand, answering in a letter of April 21, invited him.

Responding to this, Liszt wrote, he would on May 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, knock at her door, for the purpose of simply telling that he loved her. It shows that in Liszt's relation with Marie d'Agoult a further crisis had occurred. George Sand left Nohant on May 3, travelling to Paris. But Liszt's name was missing now. An important event had occurred, forcing him to give an entirely new direction to his life.

At end of April or in the beginning of May, Marie d'Agoult must have recognized that she was pregnant. In a letter to her mother she announced, she would leave her husband Charles. Her mother, according to her answer of May 6, was not surprised. Already during the previous years there had been tensions in her daughter's marriage.

As momentary solution she suggested, Marie should in Paris consult the doctor Koreff. They would afterwards meet for a cure in Ems or Baden-Baden. In the end, mother and daughter negotiated, they would meet on June 1 in Basel. Until then, Marie d'Agoult's mother had no knowledge of her daughter's pregnancy nor of her wishing to live with Liszt. He visited Liszt and afterwards Marie d'Agoult. In a long conversation he tried to persuade Marie d'Agoult to keep staying in her marriage.

But it was in vain. Liszt left on June 1, following her. As official explanation for Liszt's leaving Paris, it was his plan to get new impressions for his artistic development by travelling in Switzerland, Italy and Sicily, eventually also in Spain. Looking at Liszt in autumn , his situation was problematic in the highest sense. He had on September 6, together with Marie d'Agoult, arrived in Bellagio and had there started composing his masterworks. Until October 22, , his 12 Grandes Etudes were achieved. Unfortunately his fame as composer was as bad as a composer's fame could possibly be.

For this reason it was difficult for Liszt to find a publisher who was willing to take his masterworks. Liszt contacted the publisher Mori in London and Haslinger in Vienna. The answers which he received from both were nearly identical. They requested that Liszt should first travel to London and Vienna and play his works in concerts there.

In addition, Liszt received a letter from his former teacher Czerny who also suggested a voyage for concerts to Vienna.

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While until the end of Liszt's arrival in Vienna was daily expected, he actually had to stay in Italy. He could not leave Marie d'Agoult because she was pregnant. On December 24 their daughter Cosima was born. Even worse, Liszt had his daughter Blandine left in Geneva. Liszt had asked a pastor Demelleyer to take care of his daughter while he himself was in Italy. But in autumn it turned out that Blandine had been treated in evil kinds and had become ill. As consequence, one of her parents would have to go to Geneva. Since this was impossible for Marie d'Agoult, it was Liszt who was in charge.

He decided, he would in April go to Geneva and take Blandine to Italy. In the beginning of April , Liszt was together with Marie d'Agoult now living in Venice , he travelled for concerts to Vienna instead, taking a flood in Hungary as his chance. Had he negotiated with Marie d'Agoult, he would stay in Vienna for no longer than two weeks, he was actually absent for nearly two months. When at end of May he returned to Venice, he learnt that important new things had happened.

Marie d'Agoult had in the second half of April been ill. She had made the Count's acquaintance at end of March when she together with Liszt visited the Baroness Wetzlar, the mother of Liszt's rival Thalberg. When Liszt returned to Venice, the Count threatened suicide. For this reason Liszt advised Marie d'Agoult to try a relationwhip with Malazzoni. The Count had in the meanwhile left Venice, travelling to Genoa.

Liszt and Marie d'Agoult followed him there and afterwards to Milan. When Liszt had left Vienna at end of May , he had promised that he would return in September for concerts in Vienna and also in Hungary. In order to make it possible, he negotiated with Marie d'Agoult that they would together travel along the Danube to Constantinople.

Since the beginning of September , Marie d'Agoult's chambermaid was for six weeks severely ill. In addition, Blandine was still in Geneva. Liszt therefore cancelled his plans for concerts in Vienna and announced in letters to friends that he would keep staying in Italy. Blandine arrived on January 5, , in Milan. On January 15 she joined her parents in Florence. In Milan, Liszt had made many enemies. The letter had in a translation to Italian been reprinted in La Moda of July 12, Since, according to Liszt, the Italians only liked the music of Italian composers such as Bellini and Donizetti , whereas the music of German composers like Mozart and Beethoven was completely unknown to them, they were all lacking higher education.

In an ironical reply in the Figaro of July 21, , it was stated that, without doubt, Liszt must have been right. Since he himself had been applauded in prior concerts in Milan, this could only be considered as proof of the Italian public's lack of education. There were much stronger reactions besides. As consequence, a charity concert which Liszt wanted to give on September 8 had to be cancelled. A concert which he gave on September 10 was boycotted by the leading members of the society.

After those experiences, Liszt never gave a concert in Milan again. Liszt in by Henri Lehmann. In the beginning of Liszt received new invitations for concerts in Vienna. As first reaction he told Marie d'Agoult in furious manners that he had lost all interest in that disgusting virtuoso job. However, a couple of days later he disclosed that he had already made negotiations, reaching far into the year , for concerts in Vienna, in London and in several towns of Germany. Though Marie d'Agoult's first reaction was fury, the two nevertheless came to a peaceful resolution.

Until autumn they made the plan that, commencing in winter , Liszt would for a time of one and a half years give concerts at different places in Europe. He would try to gain as much money as he could. After those one and a half years had ended, he would return with Marie to Italy. They would settle there, and Liszt would continue composing his masterworks.

On May 9, , Liszt's son Daniel was born in Rome, and he started his virtuoso career as father of three children. Daniel had been left behind in Italy where the painter Henri Lehmann took care of him. Liszt first travelled to Venice. Since Marie d'Agoult had given her diary to him, he took his chance and read in full details about her love adventure of spring with Emilio Malazzoni. From Venice he went to Trieste where he gave concerts on November 5 and During his stay in Trieste, Liszt met Malazzoni again.

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After they had in friendly terms been talking about the past, Liszt gave Marie d'Agoult's Parisian address to the Count. Malazzoni wrote a letter to her with expressions like, "You have been admirable and admired", which she found even more stupid than the usual custom. In Trieste, Liszt also met the singer Caroline Ungher. In former times, she had taken part in a concert which Liszt as a boy had on December 1, , given in Vienna.

Marie d'Agoult, in letters of winter , suspected that Liszt had had a love affair with the singer. She had shortly before married the French writer Sabatier. On November 19, , Liszt gave a first concert in Vienna. He was afterwards ill for about a week. On and after November 27, Liszt gave further concerts in Vienna. They were huge successes.

On December 5, , Liszt performed at an own concert, playing for the first time his Sonnambula-fantasy , and at a " Concert Spirituel " at which he played Beethoven's Concerto in C Minor. He had learnt both works during the previous night. Liszt also took part in concerts of other artists, among them Camilla Pleyel with whom he had had a love affair several years before. They played a brilliant fantasy for four hands on Rossini's "Wilhelm Tell" by Herz.

On December 18 Liszt arrived in Pressburg where he was received as a kind of Hungarian national hero. After concerts on December 18 and 22 in Pressburg, he proceeded on December 23 to Pest. At a famous event on January 4, , in the theatre of Pest, a group of Hungarian noblemen offered a "sabre of honour" to Liszt. Liszt gave a speech, expressing his deep patriotic emotions.

Since German was forbidden in the theatre of Pest, Liszt spoke in French. During his stay in Hungary he gave several concerts. One of those concerts was a charity concert in favour of a National Hungarian Conservatory which was to be founded later. Liszt also visited Raiding. On February 1, , Liszt returned to Vienna where he gave further concerts. During the first half of March , he played in Prague. Although until now the success of Liszt's concerts been sensational, his successes decreased after he left the city, travelling to Dresden and Leipzig.

Especially in Leipzig, Liszt found an atmosphere of strong hostility. Schumann , who had met Liszt in Dresden, wrote reviews praising Liszt's concerts. Mendelssohn also tried to save the situation. To help Liszt, he organized a concert on March 30 in the Gewandhaus. Together with Liszt and Ferdinand Hiller , he played a concerto for three pianos by J. But when Liszt left Leipzig, he had still many enemies there. In the beginning of April , Liszt travelled via Metz to Paris. In letters to Marie d'Agoult he had imagined his return as the triumphant beginning of a new period of his life.

As a point of honour, he would give a series of concerts in Paris, earning at least 20, Francs from them. But after his arrival Liszt learnt that his successes in Vienna, Pest and Prague counted as nearly nothing in Paris. The "sabre of honour" brought less pleasure than pain to him. It evoked a flood of caricatures, sarcastic comments and polemical attacks in the press. Berlioz wrote in an article in the Journal des Debates , "We let Mozart and Beethoven starve to death, while giving a sabre of honour to Mr. Instead of giving a series of concerts, Liszt gave only a single matinee on April 20 at the Salons Erard.

Besides he took part in a concert of sacral music, given by the Princess Belgiojoso. The matinee had had the character of a private concert, since Liszt himself had invited his audience. The sum he had earned in Paris was therefore zero. Even worse, Liszt was in reviews compared with his rival Thalberg , who had arrived in Paris a couple of weeks before Liszt. Although Thalberg gave no concert he was nevertheless regarded as leading piano virtuoso of the time. In contrast to Liszt, Thalberg was also praised as composer of genius. Marie d'Agoult had the impression that Liszt's personality had changed.

Had he in former times, with words, despised social rankings, his letters of winter had been full of boasting with social successes.

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It was now his pride that he on his own expenses was dining together with Barons and Princes. The highest standing persons were anxiously waiting whether they were allowed to listen to his divine playing. After his return to Paris he could no longer stand a conversation when he was not praised in most ridiculous exaggerations. Liszt, in a word, had turned into a social climber and was - at moment - behaving like the worst kind of a snob.

Besides, there were rumours of love affairs he had had with innumerable ladies in Vienna and Pest. In the beginning of May Liszt went to London. He had hoped, he could in London gain a victory over Thalberg by earning more money than his rival, but the financial result of his concerts was disappointing. She lived in Richmond , while Liszt was occupied with concerts in London. During winter , Marie d'Agoult had written an autobiographical manuscript, reflecting her time together with Liszt in Italy. According to the manuscript, after his return from Vienna to Venice in spring Liszt had confessed that he had had love affairs with ladies in Vienna; he had said it would happen again and he couldn't change this.

On June 20, , Marie d'Agoult had sent the manuscript together with a letter to Liszt. In the letter she wrote, it would be best for her to live the rest of her life alone. After Liszt had read the letter and the manuscript, he wrote, concerning the manuscript, that Marie had well remembered his words. But he on his side would never forget, no matter how hard he would try, what she had said to him.

With much anger she had called him "Don Juan parvenu". In their previous seven years together they had often experienced like conflicts. After their stay in England they travelled together via Brussels to the Rhineland. For one and a half months, Liszt gave concerts in several towns. On August 12 Liszt played a charity event in Bonn. On that occasion a committee, responsible for a Beethoven memorial to be erected in summer , received 10, Francs from him. Liszt, who was nominated as an honorary member of the committee, wanted to compose a cantata for the event.

As a member of the troupe of Lewis Henry Lavenu he made a tour of England consisting of about 50 concerts covering the length and breadth of the country. Lavenu was the stepson of publisher and violinist Nicolas Mori. They started on August 17, giving concerts in Chichester and Portsmouth. Six weeks later, the tour ended with concerts on September 25 and 26 in Brighton. The success was only moderate. Lavenu lost a sum worth of 5, - 6, thousand Francs, but he negotiated with Liszt that during winter a second tour would be following.

They went for a vacation of two weeks to Fontainebleau and enjoyed another small isle of happiness. In later times both of them claimed, they never had had an idea of a wedding. But it is known from their letters that during their stay in Fontainebleau they became engaged. Marie d'Agoult, still wedded to her husband Charles, hoped she could follow the recent example of Princess Belgiojoso. The Princess, after several years of living separated from her husband, had just been divorced.

Liszt might have thought of still another example. He admired Schumann, who had on September 12, , married Clara Wieck. During the stay in Fontainebleau, Liszt tried to return to his former ideals. He started reading the Bible again and also made new plans concerning his masterworks. Of the volume "Italie", four pieces on Italian melodies and the "Dante-fragment", an early version of the "Dante-Sonata", had been finished. About two or three additional pieces for the volume "Italie" and the pieces for the volume "Allemagne" were still to be composed.

Liszt planned to give concerts from Fontainebleau to Hamburg. After, he would go to Berlin. During the winter he would play in Great Britain, travelling one again with Lavenu's troupe. In January he would return via Brussels to Paris. Together with Robert and Clara Schumann, they would then play St. In May and June he would give concerts in London. After this last stay, his tours would have ended. Together with Marie d'Agoult he would travel via Geneva to Italy, where a stay with a long fermata would follow.

Liszt left on October It was a very fugitive first acquaintance and left no traces. From Paris, Liszt travelled to Hamburg, arriving on October His first concert was on October The program included some pieces of vocal music, but it turned out that the singers were not allowed to take part in the concert.

In a short speech Liszt declared, he would play further solo pieces instead. His second concert, on October 31, was a greater success. On November 2 he took part in a concert of his pupil Hermann Cohen. While Liszt had planned to leave on November 4 for Berlin, he took his chance in Hamburg, giving an additional "last concert" on November 6. On that day he received a letter by Lavenu according to which he was on November 22 awaited in London.

Since not enough time was left for a voyage for concerts to Berlin, Liszt gave on November 10 a further "Farewell concert". He afterwards went to Dunkirk where he lived together with Marie d'Agoult for some days. Because of a calm on the Channel , it was not until November 23 that Liszt arrived in Dover. Still another delay occurred, since Liszt missed his train to London. Lavenu's troupe had on November 23 already given a first concert in Reading. Since Liszt, announced as a superstar, was absent, most of the people in the audience had left in anger. A concert in Newbury , also announced for November 23, was therefore cancelled.

Lavenu travelled to London where he met Liszt on November That evening, Liszt arrived in Oxford and took part in his first concert of the tour. During the following months the troupe was with a carriage travelling through ice and snow, usually giving two concerts at different places every day, with Sundays being free. At large cities such as Dublin they had an easier life. They performed at several concerts and could stay for some days. But this was an exception.

After a last concert on January 29, , in Halifax , it turned out that the financial result was catastrophic. Liszt himself had lost a sum of more than 15, Gulden, i. Besides performing at concerts, Liszt had during the tour composed several dozens of pages of music. In the second half of December, he had remembered Marie d'Agoult's birthday, which was on December For this reason he had made a new version of his transcription of Beethoven's love song "Adelaide". Marie d'Agoult had taken this name five years earlier, after she had in Geneva given birth to her daughter Blandine. During the stay in Hamburg, he had composed the first version of his Lucrezia-fantasy.

The next day he left, travelling to Brussels. Liszt had announced, he would on February 7 or 8 arrive for concerts in Brussels. Liszt had to cross the Channel again and was for a further time late. Much ice was on the sea, and the captain of Liszt's ship had to wait until he could dare to enter the harbour of Ostend. When in the late evening of February 9 Liszt arrived in Brussels, the concert had already ended five hours before. On March 2 and 4 he gave concerts in Antwerp.

After a last concert on March 13 in Brussels, Liszt returned to Paris. In comparison with his former plans, he arrived with a delay of two months. His plan of a voyage to St. Petersburg and Moscow was therefore cancelled. The success of Liszt's concerts in Belgium had been sensational. Concerning Liszt's financial result, a Brussels correspondent of the Revue et Gazette musicale estimated, Liszt had earned a sum of 15, - 20, Francs. However, it is uncertain how much of that money Liszt still owned.

As soon as he had earned money, he had thrown it away in banquets for admirers and friends. In a later letter to Marie d'Agoult, of June 19, , Liszt wrote, he had in Brussels still debts of Louis d'ors , i. Liszt's stay in Paris turned out to be his most successful season since his time as child prodigy. His rival Thalberg, who had had announced own concerts in Paris, had changed his plans. He travelled for concerts via Frankfurt-am-Main and Leipzig to Warsaw. Liszt gave concerts on March 27 and on April 13 and On March 27 he played his fantasy on "Robert le Diable" which was a huge success.

More important, taking Liszt's own perspective, was the concert on April It was a charity concert in favour of the Beethoven memorial in Bonn. It was followed by a recitation in honour of Beethoven. Liszt then played the new version of his transcription of the "Adelaide". As he wanted to proceed with the "Kreutzer-Sonata" op. He then played, together with Lambert Massard, the "Kreutzer-Sonata". At the program's end, the Pastoral-Symphony under the direction of Berlioz was performed. On May 5 he left Paris, travelling via Boulogne to London.

At moment he was convinced that he had at last gained the position in Paris he had wished to gain. In London, Liszt performed at several private soirees and at concerts of other artists. On May 17 he took part in a concert of Jules Benedict. At the end of a monstrous program, Liszt played together with Benedict a four handed version of Thalberg's Norma-Fantasie op.

Life of Franz Liszt

But after some weeks he had the impression, he could not earn much money with concerts. Because of a political crisis, it was in May to be feared that most of the leading persons of the society would leave for the countryside. Liszt announced for June 5 an own concert. The concert had to be cancelled because of an accident.

Returning from Norwood to London in the night of May 31 to June 1, Liszt had been thrown from his carriage to the street and sprained his left hand. On June 5 he took part in a charity matinee in favour of Polish refugees. Using only his right hand, he played together with Jules Benedict a duo. On June 12 he gave an own concert, playing with much pain his Sonnambula-fantasy and some further pieces.

On June 14 he played at a Philharmonic concert Hummel's Septet. While Liszt's reputation as virtuoso was steadily increasing, his financial result in London was very poor. In order to solve his financial problems, Liszt was reflecting an offer he had received from Hamburg.

According to this, he should on July 7 take part in a concert of a North German music festival. Around July 10 he should give an own concert in Hamburg besides. Regarding this, he wrote in a letter to Marie d'Agoult of June 16,. At one of the following days, Liszt's financial situation was getting even worse. Liszt had entirely paid the money he had lent from Moscheles as well as from Beale. Until the end of his stay in London, Liszt received several letters of Marie d'Agoult with objections against his new ideas. But his decision had already been made. He performed at the concert on July 7 and gave on July 9 an own concert.

After his concert in Hamburg, Liszt received an invitation to Copenhagen. He played on July 15 at the Danish court and afterwards gave several concerts.