Thomas Tapper

“ All good and wonderful things live on forever. Even though Liszt moved from Weimar, spending his last years in Budapest, Rome and elsewhere, he was not idle. There was always a circle of people about him. And always his full-hearted, generous nature kept him at work for the good of others. He reminds us of Beethoven who once said, "Composing is a capital thing. For instance if a friend is in distress and I have no money at hand to help him, I can sit down and compose something which I can sell and so relieve him." ”

“ Here he sits playing. You see he had only a simple kind of piano. But he mastered it so thoroughly that he could make people wonder at his art. That is what we learn from the lives of famous people. They are always true to their talent.
After Liszt had traveled many years over Europe (he never visited the United States) , he became conductor at the Court Theatre at Weimar. This new music work interested him so much that he gave up travel as a concert pianist. He helped many composers by having their operas performed at the Weimar Theatre. ”

“ After many years as a concert pianist, Liszt became opera conductor at Weimar.
[Pg 13] 8. He brought out many of the operas of Richard Wagner.
9. He was a great teacher of piano, and many people from Europe and from the United States studied with him.
10. He composed many fine works.
11. Among them are arrangements of many of Schubert's songs.
12. Liszt died in Rome in 1886. He was seventy-five years old.
13. Liszt wrote the life of his friend Frederic Chopin.
14. It has been said that no musician ever lived who did so much for others as Franz Liszt. ”