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...Eduard Hanslick was the most fearless and most feared music critic of his day (1825-1904), and one of the most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through, both before...
Measured Gravity. One of the greats who got an unwelcome notice was Franz Liszt. After Liszt dropped his dazzling career as a pianist to compose his bombastic symphonic poems (Tasso, Les Preludes, Mazeppa), Hanslick wrote with measured gravity: "The musical world has suffered, in the virtuoso's abdication, a loss which the composer's succession can hardly compensate." Liszt stuck to his composing, but the verdict of time supports Critic Hanslick...
...view of the brevity of the pas de deux, however, Ashton's "Dante Sonata," to music by Franz Liszt, was the most important attraction of the evening. A great deal has been read into this ballet that was never intended by the choreographer, but Ashton's instinct toward the abstract rather than narrative form often makes such interpretation possible...
Wagner considered himself "no artisan to earn my daily bread; it must be offered to me . . .so that I may remain an artist. Who is to do this? Only those who love me." Those who loved him-the most famed was Franz Liszt-had often to be reminded of their obligation. Sample: "I have locked myself up in a country house to put the last touches on the Holländer; the town won't see me again until he flies. Meanwhile, there is urgent business for you. Look at this pawn ticket...
...circumstance: they were both married.) But such circumstances did not stop Wagner from running off with the wife of his friend Hans von Bülow, who conducted the first performance of Tristan. Cosima von Bülow, illegitimate daughter of Wagner's old friend and benefactor Franz Liszt, became Richard Wagner's second wife, died...