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It is worth paying special attention to one extremely important conclusion of Bartok, which largely explains the underestimation of Liszt's work, which by the beginning of the 1860s began to be felt more acutely by him: "... the general public cannot grasp the essence of musical works, it more easily perceives their external sides." In his opinion, Liszt’s works are more important than the Wagnerian ones - not because they are more perfect, but because “Wagner makes full use and develops all the new features introduced into them, and the numerous undertakings that Liszt encountered were developed not by himself, but by his followers ".