Grave Digger - Spirits Of The Dead

On November 17, Liszt left Rome and was already in Budapest on the 21st, where he again plunged into the maelstrom of public life. From the calm and silence of the Italian days there was no trace. Concerts, classes, charity evenings went one after another. In the newspaper Fövárosi Lapok (Fövárosi Lapok - “Capital Leaves”) of December 25, a very revealing passage appeared: “Publicity is no longer his element, and it is unfortunate that we do not treat this with due respect. If they write in one newspaper that this season he will give a public concert in favor of the Writers' Society, the next day a raid begins: four to five societies knock on his door under the pretext of charity. After all, we know that with regard to charity, there is hardly any artist around the globe who would donate more to her altar, but perhapsit would be better to give him the opportunity to do this on his own initiative, and not in an atmosphere of intrusive coercion. Not today tomorrow it may happen that some society, considering Liszt’s art as an auxiliary source of its income, will enter “10 fingers of Liszt” in its annual budget after membership dues, ”