Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-02
ABBE LISZT DEAD.
The Romantic Career of a world F.
nous Pianist.


nous Pianist.
BAYREUTH, Aug. 1.-Abbe List died a
midnight Saturday night at Villa Wahnfried
the residence of Nine. Cesima Wagner, hi
daughter, by whom he has been attended
during his illness.
Able Franz List, the celebrated pianist
who was received with such tremendous en-
thusiasm when he visited Paris and Londo1
last spring, has just lived long enough to b.
present at the wedding of his granddaughter
Daniela Won Bulow, Nine. Wagner's child by
her first marriage. He first made his ap
pearance as pianist in 1920, being then only
in his ninth year. After eighteen months OF
Jealous study in his native country, Hungary,
he proceeded to Paris, where he performed
before the Duke of Orleans, and to London,
where he became a great fayorite of King
George ". His youth was one of wild ad-
venture. At the age of twenty-three he
eloped with the young Comtesse d'Agoult
and lived with her during several years in a
pretty villa on the shores of the Lake of
Geneva. She bore him several children,
among others Cosima, who married first the
tanned a divorce to marry Richard Wagner.
Another daughter, now dead, married M.
Emile Olivier, the Prime Minister
of France at the time of the decla-
ton of war against Germany in 1870
The Comtesse d'Agoult, whosis better known
by her nom de plume of Daniel Stern, and
who is reputed to have been the most utterly
woman of the century, suddenly
left him to become the mistress of Emile de
Girardin. List, almost heart-broken by her
desertion, recommended his travels, giving
performances in all the capitals of Europe.
Being, however, of q very impressionable ma
ture, he became deeply attached to two mar
ried ladies'. one of whom was Russian and
the other German princess, Sagn Wittgen-
stein. The latter after great deal Of diff
Guilty obtained divorce from her hus-
band, which was granted on the very
day on which the Russian lady became
a widow. Liszt having solemnly promised
to each of them separately was now
at his wits end and in despair appealed to
his friend and patron, Cardinal Hohenlohe,
for assistance. Acting on the latter's advice
he solved the difficulty by entering the
priesthood, and probably with view of es-
Gaping from the just vengeance of two deep
ly wronged ladies. He took up his residence
in the Vatican, where he remained until
1872. Since then he has mostly lived in
and has been the recipient of hon
DIS from almost every sovereign in Europe.
He was covered with decorations, possessing
close upon sixty, and was very proud of
them. His vanity was beyond all belief, and
hundreds of anecdotes are related of his ex-
traordinary behavior in society.
List appeared exceedingly aged when he
last appeared in London, and it required
stretch of the imagination for tie audience
to figure the handsome and dashing lover of
The women known as Daniel Stern and George
Sand. His magnificent talent, however, was
still unimpaired, and at one of the evening
parties given in his honor he impulsively
5ook his seat at the piano and played in an
absolutely perfect manner. His touch was
described as magical, imparting expression
o every graduation of tone; clearness of ar
;iculation was combined with exquisite ia
,ility of execution, and although his per-
ormance was soon over, it suficed to show
hat List was still the most accomplished
md the most intellectual of pianists.