Mikael Rasmusson ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>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.

And for no reward either.  It's interesting to compare the attitiude
to Liszt to Schumann, when S needed performances and Schumann to L when
*he* did.  Liszt was generosity itself.  Schumann defined "ingrate".

Deryk Barker
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