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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