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Reminiscences of a scandal – reminiscences of La Scala: Liszt's fantasy on Mercadante's Il giuramento

1993; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s095458670000402x

1474-0621

Kenneth Hamilton,

Diverse Musicological Studies

[Liszt] was not only a musical genius, but could probably have achieved the heights in another profession too. When a diplomat at the Berlin court once asked him, ‘What would become of you if you suddenly lost your hands?’ he replied composedly: I could still be the world's greatest diplomat’.