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10-1-1930 Volume 48, Number 10 (October 1930) James Francis Cooke
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‘Bhe ‘Majesty of Liszt HUNGARY has had no king whose influence in great wealth of Hungarian folk themes in his works. and out of the land of the Magyars has equalled Liszt’s prodigal benevolence, his greatness of heart, the regal rule of Franz; Liszt. The dominion of his breadth of vision, his princely courtesy, his pride, Liszt was that of a great humanist and a great human, his wit, and his keen penetration, all were traits quite as much as that of the master pianist and com¬ characteristic of the finest in Hungarian life. Like poser. His magic influence extended far beyond the most Hungarians, he was a splendid linguist. The borders of his native land; and, even today, forty-four Hungarian language is one of the most difficult of all to years after his death, there is no figure in the history learn. Because their native tongue bears little of no. of the piano that equals in prestige that of Liszt. resemblance to that of any other European nation, Hun¬ Born in Raiding (near garians are forced to learn Odenburg, in 1811), his long other languages, which they life terminated at the shrine usually acquire exceedingly of his great son-in-law, Rich¬ ard Wagner, in 1886. His Liszt could not rise to his father was a man of culture, great heights without in¬ who played the piano ex¬ curring jealousies. His vari¬ ceedingly well and who gave ous love affairs have been the son his first lessons. In magnified, perhaps because 1821 the little Franz was he was the victim of a small taken to Czerny at Vienna; army of adventuresses and and the greater part of his because of his prominence. life thereafter was spent, not He was little different from in Hungary, but at Paris, Weimar and Rome. True, ated as he was, except that he did go back to Budapest perhaps he was a little more some eleven years before his open. death, to take the presidency As for Liszt’s human ap¬ of the magnificent Hungarian peal, few men of the last Academy of Music; but, all century equalled him. It in all, he was a “citizen of has been our pleasure to the world.” The great know intimately many of his school at Budapest is now disciples. In fact we studied known as the “Franz Liszt for some time with two of College of Music”. his best known pupils. The Liszt was always a Hun¬ tales of his goodness, his garian at heart and was in¬ kindness and his tolerance, tensely interested in the cul¬ are unending. He was an tural development of his inspiration to all who knew native land, not merely in The brilliance of his music but also in all other playing. g wwas mesmeric. When fields. His very name is in he playedplayed, he and the piano this day so greatly revered in became one. Liszt was the Hungary that the eyes of first to carry the piano to every Hungarian shine with orchestral dimensions. t the m It Finally, when all is said __wonder that his and done, perhaps Liszt’s patriots have erected a „ greatest achievement was statue of the master seated in a huge chair, which one the creation of the Symphonic Poem. The old-fashioned sees in front of the Budapest music school. symphonic barriers were detestable to such a genius. Liszt is credited with being the great exponent of His symphonic poems have influenced all musical com¬ Hungarian music; but a search of his voluminous com¬ position from that time on. There is a majesty about positions reveals that less than thirty of his works can the Liszt symphonic poems that has compelled all be classed as strictly Hungarian. Among these are, of musicians to^ recognize the master as one of the great course, the fifteen Hungarian Rhapsodies. Added to these are five other rhapsodies, known as: Rhapsodie The “Majesty of Liszt” was perhaps best manifested Espagnole; A Mun\acsy; Tire de L'Album de Figaro; by the homage that was instinctively paid to him, by Pour VAlbum de I'Exposition de Budapest; and D'apr'es everyone from potentate to peasant. Wherever he les “Czardas Nobles” de C. Abranyi. It seems re¬ was, he held court. He traveled with a retinue of grettable that Liszt did not embody far more of the worshippers that any monarch might have envied.
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