American Music Teacher, August 1st, 2004
The Death of Franz Liszt, introduced, annotated and edited by Alan Walker. Cornell University Press (Sage House, 512 E. State &, Ithaca, NY 14850), 2002. 224 pp., $29.95.
Most coverups eventually fail, but seldom hold up for 110 years. A truer tale of Franz Liszt's very last days than told up to now appeared in 1996 in the second to last chapter of Alan Walker's Franz Liszt: The Final Years. The source for Walker's account, a diary of Liszt's student Lina Schmalhausen, is now available in an annotated edition titled The Death of Franz Liszt.
Schmalhausen was a pupil, caregiver and confidan...
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