Stirling Newberry:

>...  Mendelssohn helped arrange concerts for Berlioz, even though he
>detested Berlioz' music.  Berlioz for his part conducted a performance
>with Chopin of one of his piano concerti.  The situation in 1835 was
>considerably more collegial than it would be in 1865.

I didn't know about the Mendelssohn/Berlioz concert.  Berlioz conducted
when Liszt played his (Liszt's) Lelio fantasy in 1834 (or 1835).

Liszt did support a great number of major (Schubert, Beethoven, Berlioz,
Chopin, Schumann and Wagner) and minor composers.  His support was
essentially unaffected by external events.  He probably spent more time
and efforts (including money) on other composers than anybody else.

Mikael
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