Queen - Dead On Two Legs

As during the "virtuoso years", endless offers began to pour on Liszt to speak, or at least attend, "sanctify" various events with their visit. “Among others, I received the following invitations, from Cincinnati, to conduct a music festival there next month ... from Düsseldorf, to be present during the performance of May 5“ Legends of St. Elizabeth ”; from Braunschweig, so that I would not refuse my presence at the Musicians' Meeting, at which several of my compositions will be performed. From Vienna, Prague, Dresden, etc., etc., asking me to decorate their numerous charity concerts with my playing the piano. Thinking well, I refused everywhere, ”Liszt wrote to Carolina Wittgenstein.