Previous posts for November 4th are here: Carl Tausig (2019), Gena Branscombe (2020), Arnold Cooke; Sean Combs (2021), Carl Tausig (2022), and Carl Tausig
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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.
Anything You Can Do…
Carl Tausig, though his life was short,
Attained an immortality of sort
By publishing extravagant transcriptions
Whose difficulty beggars all descriptions.
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