New-York tribune., 1885-09-13
LISZT AT FEINAR.
MAN OF STRANGE FAscINATIoNs.

fYEow Az OCCASIONAL coRREsPoNrESs rHE rRrBuNE.l
WTiMAR, August 80.
Soatfd M n window Of the Conrt-garden house.
picturesque looking old man may be seen with long
white locks falling upon shoulders bent with the
weight Of seventy four winters. The busy people
hurryng 70 aud fro on tho pavement turn in passing
10 greet him aud smes deok the faces when the hand
(. waved or kissed in return. Idolized Ike Goethe in
the classical days of eighty years ago. Frank List IL
spending bis last days in tho German Athens as the
protege and friend OF tho Grand Duke and Duchess.
His home Is ideal one for composer or poet Vines
twine about the windows and roof and roses hang in
clusters above the door. The garden stretching
toward the park flled with flowers and stately trees
lavorite trysting place for tho master and his
frionds wcmar is proud of Lszt. 1t accepts him as
the anonted follower of the great spirits of the past
and reveres him a. II only can.
Born in the land of Kossuh, the scion Of poor but
noble family. Lszt passed his early childhood among
the mountains % his nativity manfesting talent
which foreshadowed his future career Another
voune yirtuoso fallen from the clouds who charms
10 the utmost The boys performance borders the in
credible and almost doubts the physical possibility
when b.hodng the yoaag giant n 2ea rots
Vienna critic before the first decade had passed oyer
the bows head "a year later all Paris was at his feet
caressing him Naples once petted Mozart.
The iOrsaken rnoo OF the gypses and their music has
been 10 List rs mama from Heaven. List loved
them In the mountainous holds OF hs native land.
Their memory" he says . Is associated with my
earliest recoliections and lvellcst Impressions.
Later 1 myself became wandering virtuoso Ike
them In my Patberand." And of Binary. the gypsy
yionis he says Like drops of frespirited essence
beat the tones of his violin upon my and were my
memory as plastic az clay, and each note diamond
PIN they could not be more deeply rivetted In It's
wailsr LISTS days In Paris were full OF adventure
and romance His ability mads him the hero of the
literary musical world his love conquests were
as numerous the encounters OF Don Qulrote or the
n. kuui IN am al ia
French capital 20 settle In classic Wemar, director
Of the oiorchestri where he created in part the new
musical epoch The friendship with the eIiled wagner
which independent of their subsequent kinship, be-
came a. ideal as that between Schiller ana doethe
dates its beginning there.
About thrty-6ye years ago Lohengrn and lann-
hauser were produced for the first time on any stage
sherng In the outon aud assuring the fortune OF
his famous friend Later Iiszt spent some years in
Rome Abbe-dlrector OF the Popes c"pea reforming
the music Of the Church But an Irresistible longing
for the German soil filed his breast again. The little
city on tho Ilm had become dear TO his heart. and ho
returned his home and has kept 1t as such ever
since Like Sir Launia generosity has Mt last re-
duced his means. But here the resemblance TO the
famous knight ceases; no iairy-oethrothed mas
awarded him the purse that was never empty
Many are the stories told Of him here. Scandal has
neither held its breath nor turned away Its eye
Numerous families OF patrlcian birth have suffered
much because Of this aged Don juan Even In these
days when the white locks and nervous hands beray
the coming octogsnarian, he Is loved and 9narrelled
as though ByronS blood coursed IN his veins ms
princess of the ussias Wonderfully clever, she pre-
oared a son tor college and charms her adnirer with
The beauty and spirit OF her conversation. Her deyo-
tion to Liszt knows no bounds Amusing are the
riyalres among the candidates for his FAVOR, their
auarrels and mutual contempt when destiny brings
them together: wrangles which the Master the
title he prefers to all his seventy others not able to
obyiate though and diplomatic as Alcibiades.
oh, must talk to all of them at once" he cried,
" or they will tear one another to pieces" .
watched him closely at IN afternoon party 10 dis.
cover where the influence lay Nature has not favored
him as the Apollo Goethe, but just as truly 10 bis
ute a woman's broken heart" Liszt Is anything but
handsome of less than medium height his face dis
figured by number of warts, great Grae CO. Roman
nose a large mouth broad chin, and ears that cer-
tanly indicate his municence are, save bis hair his
most striking characteristic But his eye sparkles
with the feryor of youth his hand has yet the magical
touoh that gdes over the keys though IN very CON-
munion with their every secret. And his manner All
There II Isl His seyenty-four years have enhanced
rather than diminished hia galantry and every woman
falls victim TO it, One never see his worn bent
head with its silver halo. without remembering those
strong DAYS OF his youth Hungary, and his love for
that strange atheress race of hs native land whchre-
yealed him the secress of their dukes and captains,
made him their companion by day. aud at night the
bedfelow of their dusky children under the canopy OF
Heaven No pen has described this race with the
beglty and force of Liszts " Later myseh became
wandering sirtuoso like them in my Fsthcrland Il
remained like them q stranger 10 tho pe0pAes foi-
iovpi like them my own IDEAL" lie Il still following
that ideal and has lett ts impression on ell parts OF
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