The visionary Liszt
May 14, 2020
2 minutes
ILLUSTRATION: MARIA CORTE MAIDAGAN
It’s a shock to realise how profoundly we’ve taken Franz Liszt for granted – and how much he was taken for a ride in his lifetime by those closest to him. Well, one person in particular: his son-in-law, Richard Wagner. By stealing Liszt’s ideas and inflatingto the cycle to . The harmonic language, the musical adventure, the sheer ambition of Wagner’s operas would be impossible without Liszt.
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