To mark the 200th
anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth, the pianist Lucy Parham explores the connection between virtuosity
and virility.
Liszt was a phenomenal
musical performer and, it seems, irresistible to women – among them Caroline
de Saint-Cricq, one of his students in Paris, the Countess Marie d’Agoult, the
mother of his children, Felicite de Lamennais and, from 1847, the Princess
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.
To mark the 200th
anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth, the pianist Lucy Parham explores the connection between virtuosity
and virility. 
