Amy Fay in Weimar - May, 1873

from Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era, page 219:

From time to time he [Liszt] will sit down and play himself where a passage does not suit him, and when he is in good spirits he makes little jests all the time. His playing was a complete revelation to me, and has given me an entirely new insight into music. You cannot conceive, without hearing him, how poetic he is, or the thousand nuances that he can throw into the simplest thing, and he is equally great on all sides. From the zephyr to the tempest, the whole scale is equally at his command.

cite as

Amy Fay, Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era (2011), p. 219. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1424815213404 accessed: 9 November, 2024

location of experience: Weimar

Listeners

Amy Fay
Pianist
1844-1928

Experience Information

Date/Time May, 1873
Medium live
Listening Environment in private, indoors, solitary

Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:00:13 +0000
Approved on Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:48:43 +0100