Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité
Titre propre
Dénomination générale des documents
Titre parallèle
Compléments du titre
Mentions de responsabilité du titre
Notes du titre
Niveau de description
Cote
Zone de l'édition
Mention d'édition
Mentions de responsabilité relatives à l'édition
Zone des précisions relatives à la catégorie de documents
Mention d'échelle (cartographique)
Mention de projection (cartographique)
Mention des coordonnées (cartographiques)
Mention d'échelle (architecturale)
Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)
Zone des dates de production
Date(s)
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1841-1883 (Production)
Zone de description matérielle
Description matérielle
26 letters and carte de visite; other material
Zone de la collection
Titre propre de la collection
Titres parallèles de la collection
Compléments du titre de la collection
Mention de responsabilité relative à la collection
Numérotation à l'intérieur de la collection
Note sur la collection
Zone de la description archivistique
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and pianist, was born in Raiding near Sopron on 22 October 1811. He made his debut at the age of nine and subsequently studied in Vienna with Czerny and Salieri. Later on in Paris he came to know all the principal artistic figures of the period and was influenced by Hector Berlioz, Frederic Chopin and Nicolo Paganini. He lived with Mme. D'Agoult (better known by her pen name, Daniel Stern) between 1833 and 1844 and they had three children. Their daughter Cosima became the wife of Hans von Bülow and later married Wagner.
Liszt's reputation as a performer rests mainly on the great tours of Europe and Asia Minor which he undertook between 1838 and 1847. In 1848 he was persuaded by Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, whom he had met in Kiev a few months earlier, to give up his career as a travelling virtuoso and to concentrate upon composition. He accepted an appointment to settle at Weimar where he lived with the princess for the next twelve years, a period during which he wrote or revised many of the major works for which he is known.
In the face of increasing opposition at Weimar and hoping that the Pope would sanction a divorce for the Princess, Liszt moved to Rome in 1861, composing mainly religious music for the next eight years. Invited to return to Weimar to give master classes in piano in 1869 and given a similar invitation to return to Budapest two years later, he spent the remaining years of his life making regular journeys between Rome, Weimar and Budapest. He died on 31 July 1886 in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
Historique de la conservation
Portée et contenu
Twenty-four of the letters are written by Liszt to a variety of correspondents; one letter is addressed to Liszt from the Executive Committee for the Mozart Jubilee. There is one letter from Dr. S. Jadassohn to an unknown correspondent. The letters are in French and German. The collection also includes translations of documents, a conference report for a concert held in Budapest, a piano completion certificate for one of Liszt's students, a photograph and a contract.
Zone des notes
État de conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
There have been nineteen accruals. The first accrual, letters 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11-12, was purchased from The Piano Institute of America in October 1978. The second accrual, letter 7, was purchased in September 1986. The third accrual, letters 2, 3, 9, 10, was purchased at auction at Sotheby's by Bertram Rota on 22 November 1989. The fourth accrual (11-1990) letter 14, was purchased at auction at Sotheby's by Bertram Rota for McMaster University on 17 May 1990. The fifth accrual (10-1990) letter 13, was purchased from J&J Lubrano Rare Books, Great Barrington, Massachusetts on 4 June 1990. The sixth accrual, letter 15, was purchased at auction at Sotheby's by Bertram Rota on 21 November 1990. The seventh accrual (49-2002) letter 16, was purchased on E-Bay from Alexander Autographs, 19 November 2002. The eighth accrual (51-2002) letter 17, was purchased on E-Bay from Kotte Autographs, 18 December 2002. The ninth and tenth accruals (12-2003 and 13-2003) letters 18 and 19, were both purchased from Clive Farahar and Sophie Dupre, Rare Books, Autographs and Manuscripts, 5 March 2003. The eleventh accrual (25-2003) letter 20 was purchased from Alexander Autographs, May 2003. The twelfth accrual (29-2006) letter 21, carte 22, was purchased from Lisa Cox Music in October 2006. The thirteenth accrual (36-2006), a photograph of Liszt, was purchased from W. Harmuth of Berlin via ebay in December 2006. The fourteenth accrual (37-2006), a lithograph of Liszt, was purchased from the Vanity Fair Printing Company via ebay in December 2006. The fifteenth accrual (02-2007), letter 23 to Sir Alexander Mackenzie, was purchased via ebay in January 2007. The sixteenth accrual (03-2007), a letter from Salomon Jadassohn, was purchased via ebay in February 2007.The seventeenth accrual (06-2007), letter 24 to Baron von Droste, was purchased from David Schulson Autographs, New York. The eighteenth accrual (16-2007), a contract bearing Liszt's signature, was also purchased from David Schulson Autographs, New York. The nineteenth accrual (36-2007), letter 25 to Haslinger, was purchased from David Schulson Autographs in September 2007.
Classement
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Localisation des originaux
Disponibilité d'autres formats
Restrictions d'accès
There are no access restrictions.
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Instruments de recherche
Éléments associés
Some material from the collection has been digitized and is available on McMaster's Digital Archive.
Researchers may also wish to consult the Alan Walker fonds, third accrual which contains additional Liszt letters.
Accroissements
Further accruals are expected.
