Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin You

The year 1859 can be called fateful for Liszt. Soon he suffered a new blow, the consequences of which he experienced until the end of his days. In July, the first edition of his notorious book Roma and Their Music in Hungary (Des Bohémiens et de leur en Hongrie) was published in French. By the beginning of August, the book came to Hungary. List's reasoning can be simplified to the thesis that national Hungarian music comes from gypsy, which in turn takes its roots in India. Hungarian musicologist Clara Hamburger believes: “A book on gypsy tradition in Hungarian music had a fatal effect on Liszt’s relationship with the public. If the first edition of the book quarreled with Liszt Hungarian nationalists, the second (1881. - M. Z.) caused public censure by some liberal European thinkers and overshadowed the last years of the life of the great Hungarian composer. ”