新音楽時報
Richard Pohl reviewed the "Tonkünstler-Versammlung" in the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik", extensively praising Liszt and his works. In spite of Pohl's review, the question whether the musical part of the "Tonkünstler-Versammlung" was a victory or at least a success for Liszt remains open. Wagner, had already taken a sceptical point of view regarding such events two years earlier, writing in a letter to Hans von Bülow, .