Mark Knezevic wrote: >I've known about something called the "Piano Duel" between Liszt and >Thalberg (both students of Czerny)... Can someone help me with this, or >give me a few references where I may be able to find more about this? Try any good biography of Liszt, like Alan Walker's, or Searle's, or Sitwell's. See also Schonberg's The Great Pianists. Jim Hunsley