Everyone in the Annex except Mr. van Daan and Peter has read the Hungarian Rhapsody trilogy,
a biography of the composer, piano virtuoso and child prodigy Franz Liszt.
It's very interesting, though in my opinion there's a bit too much emphasis on women;
Liszt was not only the greatest and most famous pianist of his time, he was also the biggest womanizer, even at the age of seventy.
He had an affair with Countess Marie d'Agoult, Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein,
the dancer Lola Montez, the pianist Agnes Kingworth, the pianist Sophie Menter,
the Circassian princess Olga Janina, Baroness Olga Meyendorff, actress Lilla what's-her-name, etc., etc., and there's no end to it.
Those parts of the book dealing with music and the other arts are much more interesting.
Some of the people mentioned are Schumann, Clara Wieck, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Beethoven,
Joachim, Richard Wagner, Hans von Bulow, Anton Rubinstein, Frederic Chopin,
Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Hiller, Hummel, Czerny, Rossini, Cherubini, Paganini, Mendelssohn, etc., etc.
Liszt appears to have been a decent man, very generous and modest, though exceptionally vain.
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