The Full Research Story by David Trippett
"Like Beethoven’s aborted opera Macbeth or Mendelssohn’s Lorelei, Liszt’s endeavours have garnered scholarly interest principally for reasons of curiosity and melancholy. Why were they abandoned? What have we lost? The situation has lent Liszt’s foray into Franco-Italian opera a split status: either a curious missed opportunity or a puzzling, apparently false step by an aspiring composer soon to find firmer ground in the progressive agenda of instrumental programme music." (full article here)
           (pictured: David Trippett)

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