Life Of Agony - Other Side Of The River

November 1854 is an important milestone in the history of the new music preached by Liszt. Adherents of a new aesthetic began to gather in Weimar. The fight unfolded serious. In Weimar, in contrast to Liszt’s activities, the Key Alliance (Schlüsselverein) was organized. In turn, Hoffmann von Fullersleben gave the idea to create an alliance of progressively-minded musicians, perceived by Liszt with enthusiasm. On November 17, the first appeal of the nascent society was published, urging its supporters to gather on November 20 at the Russky Dvor Hotel (Russischer Hof). On this day, a constituent assembly was held, which founded the New Weimar Union (Neu-Weimar-Verein) (the names of the Weimar, New Weimar or New German school are used in domestic musicology), the list of which was unanimously elected as the head.The union was based on musicians Peter Cornelius, Joachim Raff, Hans von Bülow, music critics Richard Paul and Karl Franz Brendel, Hoffmann von Fullersleben and others.