Deep Purple - Drifter

If the guns of the July Revolution resurrected in the List of the composer, then he suffered a similarly strong “revolutionary” shock on March 9, 1831, being present at the Paris Opera at the concert of the great Niccolo Paganini. This event brought back to life the Listing Artist. Recently, he practically did not engage in his concert career. Now, when he first heard the Italian virtuoso violinist, who fully revealed the possibilities of the instrument, he realized that he could do the same for the piano. Ya. I. Milshtein writes: “The concerts of this amazing violinist, who was then at the top of his fame, produced on Liszt“ an impression of a supernatural miracle ”. A “new world” was opened before him and that “bottomless abyss” appeared, which separated this “sole artist” from the “so-called geniuses” who worked in Paris.The sheet was not only stunned, amazed and delighted; he seemed to be reborn; images, desires, hopes streaked in a motley string in his hot brain. He was seized with an indomitable passion for work, and this passion burned in him days and nights. "