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Paris in 1830. Berlioz had just won the Prix de Rome after repeated failures. He went to hear Liszt play Weber's Concertstück, at the finish publicly embracing Liszt. That night the two musicians entered a drawing room together where musical prejudices were being aired, where Weber's name suffered scorn. A young French cock intimated that it was not enough for the court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine...
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