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LISZT IN PARIS: ENDURING ENCOUNTERS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

Rare Music Manuscripts, First Editions, Letters, and Related Materials Examine Pianist-Composer Franz Liszt's Relationship to the Extraordinary Artistic Milieu of Nineteenth-Century Paris

**Press viewing: Friday, September 5, 2008, 10 a.m. until noon**

New York, NY, July 11, 2008—When the twelve-year-old Franz Liszt (1811–1886) arrived in Paris in 1823 with his parents, he had already astounded audiences with his extraordinary musical gifts in his native Hungary, as well as in Germany and, most notably, Vienna, where Beethoven anointed him with a kiss on the forehead. Not long after his arrival in Paris, he would also amaze the sophisticated cultural community of the City of Light.

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