Translations:Franz Liszt/4/en

From TSL Encyclopedia

It is interesting to note that Liszt was born when the heavens were lighted by the spectacular grandeur of a great comet,[1] an augury, perhaps, of a life whose radiance still illumines the horizon. “My sole ambition as a musician,” said Liszt, “has been and will be to cast my javelin into the indefinite spaces of the future.”[2]

  1. The Great Comet of 1811 was visible in the sky to the naked eye for 260 days in that year, a record until the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997.
  2. Guy de Pourtalès, Franz Liszt, tr. Eleanor Stimson Brooks (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926), p. 265.