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Lettres d'un bachelier ès musique [Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music], in Gazette musicale de Paris

Lettres d'un bachelier ès musique [Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music], in Gazette musicale de Paris (1837–41) Inferred

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) · 1837–41

InferredFuller identifies the source only as 'From a letter of Liszt read 1st June.' The letter is almost certainly one of Liszt's published 'Lettres d'un bachelier ès musique' (Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music), a series of open letters published in the Gazette musicale de Paris during 1837–41, several of which describe his Italian travels of 1837–39. The specific letter cannot be identified without consulting the full series. Title inferred as the published letter series.

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Documented 1839

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
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On Poesy, Love, and Dreams

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“From a letter of Liszt read 1st June - apropos I think_ / For a musician now to travel in Italy it is necessary that he should be, like myself, greedy of the sun rather than of glory, more desirous of repose than of money, enamoured of painting and sculpture because he understands nothing of them - very much tired of music because he understands something of it.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Poesy, Love, and Dreams." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1450.

Inferred Fuller identifies the source only as 'From a letter of Liszt read 1st June.' The letter is almost certainly one of Liszt's published 'Lettres d'un bachelier ès musique' (Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music), a series of open letters published in the Gazette musicale de Paris during 1837–41, several of which describe his Italian travels of 1837–39. The specific letter cannot be identified without consulting the full series. Title inferred as the published letter series.

Fuller identifies the source only as 'From a letter of Liszt read 1st June.' The letter is almost certainly one of Liszt's published 'Lettres d'un bachelier ès musique' (Letters of a Traveling Bachelor of Music), a series of open letters published in the Gazette musicale de Paris during 1837–41, several of which describe his Italian travels of 1837–39. The specific letter cannot be identified without consulting the full series.