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For Liszt, January began with the news from Emile Olivier from Paris about the deterioration of his mother’s health. However, his son-in-law reassured him that the matter of the imminent end was not yet discussed. Liszt continued to work on the Christ oratorio, planning a trip to the French capital in early March, when the Esztergom Mass was to be performed there. For this reason, he was not able to tell his mother the last “I'm sorry”. On the evening of February 6, she died, and on the 8th she was buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse. None of the next of kin was present at the burial: it was too late for List to change anything in his schedule, he had no time to go to Paris at the time of the funeral; Cosima was also unable to escape from Munich, where she remained with the children after Wagner's departure.