![]() This is tosh, of course, and yet aspects of this accusation still linger if Liszt is played cheaply, one can still hear him accused of composing cheaply. Many musicians were jealous of his success, and took Hanslick’s line that his compositions came as a kind of afterthought to engender intellectual respectability. He did own pianos, an excellent library, both musical and literary, and he enjoyed the freedom of every court in Europe. He never owned property, nor even a coach and horses. He lost track of most of it, and gave away virtually all of it. ![]() He was never penurious the starving artist in the garret was someone whom he helped, but someone he never was. The trouble started whilst he was alive, of course, when many people simply couldn’t cope with his fame and popularity. ![]() Liszt is the only great composer of the nineteenth century who still suffers from detractors, and this despite the acknowledged debt of almost every composer who was his younger contemporary or successor. ![]()
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