Sepultura - Revolt (demo)

It would seem that after such an assessment of a professional colleague, List can not be afraid of any rivalry. But only for his glory List worried then? No and no again! Given the nature of Liszt, completely alien to envy, in the relationship with Thalberg, there was a struggle not for a “place in the sun”, but for the future of art as a whole. It was not Liszt’s degree of virtuosity that challenged Liszt, but a principled approach to the tasks of music. There was a rivalry not of people, but of ideas. Liszt had nothing against Talberg personally, moreover, he paid tribute to his talent - but this talent was fundamentally different from his ideals. The threat was precisely to his creative principles, the truth of which he believed unconditionally, List felt. Their “struggle” (in any case, on the part of Liszt) was a struggle between two schools, two directions, and not two rivals. Not by chance,speaking in Paris after Talberg, Liszt chose Beethoven's 29th sonata for his concerts - this was the manifesto of the new Listov school, as opposed to the new Talberg.