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By Charles F. Barber. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. [xix, 429 p. ISBN 0-8108-4108-8. $49.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discograpy, personalia, index, compact disc.
The Weimar studio of Franz Liszt attracted untold numbers of aspiring pianists in the 1880s. Liszt then had an "open-door, no-charge" policy for teaching, and the students that came ranged widely in talent. As Harold Schonberg has written, most "were auditors who might have played for him once or twice, and then went home to hang out shingles advertising themselves as Liszt pupils ... But mixed among the hangers-on was a group of titans who went on to careers that lasted well ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Lost in the Stars: The Forgotten Musical Life of Alexander...