The tour was to last a few weeks, jin fact, is lasted nearly 20 yenrs, Jduring which period Franz and Marie rarely met. One evening when Liszt was in Dresden he was Jmost anxious to hear "Rienzi" by the new conductor of the orchestra come emotion, and when louse. He was over
Wagner came up to his box Liszt was still shaken by this musical thunderbolt. Thus began the great friendship of the two musicians. Rut the same evening saw the end -<f Liszt's romance, Wagner did not stay long, for in the box was a woman—Lola Montes, the pianist's atest adorer, News of this half-trish, half-Andalusian beauty came to Marie's fears, and she took the opportunity to break with Franz, We have not space to refer to the other affairs of Liszt's life—none of them equalled this romance which ended so banally—nor to Liszt's final renunciation of the world. The reader will find them treated with frankness and good taste in M, Pourtalés's book, which has been admirably translated by Eleanor Stimson Brooks, simpllelty and intensity of the young planist?" All the barriers "went own—even the terrible. threat of Social ostracism which it meant before it.
On the evening of August 21, apa og stopped before Ne." Hotelérie ses. Balances. thie Gesie we" "travellers down, "a young woman fair The end of the romance of Franz! and Marie was tragic in its com: monplacencss. Liszt simply gr tired of the woman who had sacrificed so much for him—husband, children, fortune, position, reputation.
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