New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-18
COUNT z|CHY'S TRUST
Able LISTS Secret Papers Left
TO the 0ne-Armed Composer.

fCopyright 1911. by the Brentwood Company. J
Count stephen Itchy, who arrived in thu
United States on Sunday last from Europe
on board the Amerika, and is now stayint
for a few weeks In New York. is a cousin
of Count Geza Itchy. who has just handed
TO the Hungarian Academy of Music, OF
the occasion OF the celebration at Buda.
nest of the centenary of List, a sealed
package, with a stipulation that 1t should
not be opened for another ten years.
count Geza Itchy was one OF the most
Intimate friends OF the famous Able. and
Ia perhaps himself the most celebrated
amateur pianist and composer in Europe
This is all the more remarkable since he
lost his right arm. at the age of sixteen
es the result of shooting accident. and
PLAYS with his left hand, but with such
skill and genius that the absence Of the
right hand is not noticed
have known him for many years, and
have often watched and heard him play,
both when among few relatives and
friends and I'm amateur concerts. So far as
] could see. he accomplished his playing
with one hand by means of the wonder
mi heXibility which he has developed in
tho thumb He uses the latter for the
melody. with the utmost delicacy OF touch,
end the way in which the accompaniment
OF the air is played. sometimes two octaves
lower. by the remaining four fingers, is
nothing short Of marvellous, especially the
nonchalance and case with which II Is ac-
compliShed.
The count, who is a member OF the Hun
earian House OF Lords. and possessed OF
very large estates. plays in public only for
charity. and has. by means of his ANA
tour concerts. raised and turned over TO
rhilanthropic enterprises and institutions
2 sum of more than two million crowns
during his long and useful life. Among his
compositions have been a couple of patrl-
otic operas-onc entitled "Alar' and the
other Master Roland"-which have been
produced with much success in Berlin, in
Vienna, at the opera houses Of the other
German capitals and at Pesth where for
twenty years he filled. without pay. the
court Office OF Director General OF the
ROYAL Opera At the present moment he
is president Of the Royal Hungarian Con-
scrvatory OF Music.
Really Written by LISTS Friend.
The package which he has placed in the
archives of the Academy of Music in ques-
ton contains. according TO him. proofs that
review article always attributed TO the
Able, in which Hungarian music was be-
Titled. as entirely a product of the gypsies.
was in reality written by LISTS friend
Princess ayn-Wittgenstein. It's pubica-
ton created such an unpleasant stir in
Hungary that LISTS chivalry led him TO
take the odium of the article on himself.
Count Geza Itchy states further that the
documents in the package, when opened
ten years hence. will relieve the Able OF
the charge of anti-Semeticism sometimes
brought against him. Count Geza Zichy
has four children. one Of his sons-in-law
being likewise his cousin. Count John
Itchy, who is Minister of Public Instruc-
,tion and Public Worship in the present
hungarian Cabinet.
The family. which is one Of the oldest in
Hungary. its castle of Itchy. in the Hun
2arian province of Somosy having been In
its possession since 1886. and its title of
count. borne by all the members. dating
from 1866, is one OF the most numerous CT
the Hungarian aristocracy. In fact, there
arc probably at the present moment nearly
o hundred Counts Itchy. and, what is
more. most of them are in affiuent circum-
stances The head OF the house is the
venerable Count Ferdinand Itchy, who is
Grand Treasurer Of the Hungarian Crown,
while two of his sons have held Cabinet
Office
One Of the Zichys, Count Bella Zichy, for
merly attached TO the Austrian Embassy at
Washington. married Miss Mabel Wright.
The divorced wife Of the late Fernando
Yznsga. and sister-in-law, therefore. Of
tho late Consuelo Duchess OF Manches-
tor They spend a good deal of their
time in England In London and Eastbourne,
or else on their estates in Hungary, resi-
donce in either Budapest or Vienna being
unplea SAINT. owing TO the fact that the for
mer Mrs Yznaga is barred from court,
both as a divorce and owing TO her lack
OF nobilary lineage.