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...addition to the new appointments, a former visiting lecturer is also returning to Harvard this year on a regular university appointment. He is William Koehler, former Director of the Weimar State Art Collection, and will come this year as Professor of Fine Arts. Professor Koehler has been Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard since September...
Shortly after he met his Princess, Liszt, at 36, amazingly gave up his fabulous concert playing, started an entirely new musical life during which he earned not a cent from playing or teaching. He had accepted a position as conductor and musical director to the Grand-Ducal Court at Weimar. To Liszt that meant two things?presenting the music of Wagner who was then penniless and unrecognized; composing music...
...neither ambition was he greatly successful. Weimar heard Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser and Lohengrin but the last was the only one which Liszt presented for the first time. He perfected and published the best of his own music. For a time Weimar was the musical centre of Europe but its brilliance gradually began to dim. In December 1858, Liszt heard what were probably the first hisses of his career. He resigned immediately...
...Paganini. He went to Rome with his faithful Princess; in 1865, after he discovered they could not get married, he took minor orders in the Roman Church. But the Abbe Liszt had not given up music. By degrees his oldtime popularity returned to him. He was invited again to Weimar for a part of each year. Hungary formed an Academy of Music, put him in charge, greeted him so exuberantly that he played the piano for the populace from a balcony. Like an aged Byron he continued to have love affairs, during one of which he was almost shot. Finally...
...Sitwell's biography will find an earnest attempt to discover Liszt's true place in the history of music. Mr. Sitwell's estimate: like Byron. Liszt was the embodiment of his art, a poetical figure if not a great poet. The greatest of pianists, he became at Weimar the first executive of music, paved the way for followers...