Word: grubelei
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...producers of this masterpiece have not been good enough to include the music, with the exception of a brief snatch of the "Liszt" Grubelei, which they compare to a cadenza from the third Liebestraum. Humphrey Searle comments on the comparison that Mrs. Brown's product is so much like Liszt's that it must be authentic. And so it is. It is in fact almost a direct copy, with slight changes in time signature and some minor details. In short, the sort of thing a somewhat untalented musician might come up with when assigned to imitate Liszt's style...
...clearly a case of chicanery for profit and fame. The Philips contract has brought Rosemary $2,000 to $3,000 but can be expected to earn more. If Rosemary is in touch with Liszt, the best way to prove it is not to produce the lukewarm but pleasant Grubelei she claims to have received from him, but to discover something from the past, perhaps Liszt's now vanished manual of piano technique, which he wrote for the Geneva Conservatoire. The spirits that mediums raise always inconveniently refuse to answer the very questions that would prove their existence...
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