But Liszt also belongs to the literary fraternity, and his works,
published by Breitkopf & Hartel, contain some of the best ever written
in regard to art and artists. They were mostly written in elegant
French originally, and relate to the social position of artists and
the state of the art of music in certain cities or even an entire
country. A part of his works is devoted to the music of gypsies, and
to a true and honest history of the life of his friend Chopin.
Then again we find him preparing the path to the hearts of the public
for Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, Robert Franz, and Meyerbeer. Liszt has
certainly collected enormous sums of money in his successful career,
but as fast as he reaps his earnings he gives them to those needing
assistance, and it is almost entirely to him that the inhabitants of
Bonn, on the Rhine, owe their beautiful Beethoven Monument, and during
the last years Liszt has been untiring in giving concerts and
collecting money for a monument for the greatest of the great, Johann
Sebastian Bach.
Liszt is an artist in every sense of the word, and we should all wish
that he will remain among us for many years more.
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M. GARNIER'S NEW METHODS OF PHOTOENGRAVING.
By MAJOR J. WATERHOUSE, B.
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