Franz Liszt

Henning, a recent widower fifteen years older than his bride, was the only son of Graf Harry Kurt Edward von Arnim, a German ambassador who had been exiled from Germany by Bismarck because of political...

The end of her affair with de Musset was embittered by accusations on his part that she was having an affair with musician Franz Liszt . The painter Delacroix , engaged in a portrait of...

EBO loved her landowner father, Baron Bódog Orczy (who regularly used the Latin and therefore international form of his given, Hungarian name: Felix),more than anyone else in the world, though he did not encourage...

FK 's sister Adelaide became a celebrated opera singer, who once toured through Germany with Franz Liszt . She was also an author, publishing under her married name of Adelaide Sartoris .

GS was portrayed as Mademoiselle de Touches in Balzac 's novel Béatrix, a fictionalized account of the love affair between Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult .

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

Her relationship with Michel was interrupted by a bland affair with writer Charles Didier . Her next discovery, philosopher and writer Pierre Leroux —with whom her relationship was not sexual—influenced her writing with his ideas...

She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld and Maria Edgeworth . Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later...

FS was educated as a young girl in Paris by a governess and at a day school. While there she took piano lessons from Franz Liszt .

Throughout her life, music was among EMC 's greatest passions. Liszt requested a piano performance by her. Apart from music and literature, she pulled a good oar and enjoyed riding. She was a...

AK undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble , Mary Anne Thackeray and Henry Chorley . Liszt joined them in Germany.

GS 's playCosima, titled after the daughter of Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult , opened in Paris.

EMC , with her mother and sister , met Liszt in Rome.

Evidently preferring that their first experience of life together should take place away from England, the couple travelled through Brussels, Cologne and Frankfurt to Weimar, where they stayed for some months. They were...