¹ Walker, Alan, Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861–1886 (London: Faber and Faber, 1997): 3–4 Google Scholar.

² A random example: why do the fiercest attacks on Liszt’s Catholic image come from the Hungarian satirical journal Borsszém Jankó in particular? What is the context? I also missed the more familiar (and brilliant) caricature from this journal (6 April 1873), which contains barbed comments on Liszt’s mannerism, image and ‘imposing modesty’ (!).

³ Conversely, this fine argument means he could express existential struggles under generic cover (see for example Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17); and it explains why for post-war rehabilitators of Liszt it was precisely the suppressed, dissonant and post-tonal works that conjured the irresistible image of Liszt as a misunderstood prophet of twentieth-century music.