Previous posts for November 4th are here: Carl Tausig (2019), Gena Branscombe (2020), Arnold Cooke; Sean Combs (2021), and Carl Tausig (2022)
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Carl Tausig (4 November 1841 – 17 July 1871) was a great pianist and a minor composer, now mostly remembered for virtuoso arrangements and transcriptions.
Unrecorded Now
Tausig was considered by some critics to be the most distinguished (pianistically) of Liszt's pupils and to carry pure virtuosity to heights only suggested by Liszt. Anton Rubenstein called him "the infallible." – Wikipedia
What we wouldn’t give to hear
Tausig play; he had no peer.
“Infallible” they sometimes called him,
And critics of the time installed him
In a high Parnassian shrine,
And when he died at twenty-nine
All his fellow pianists grieved, —
But secretly they were relieved.
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