{"id":3637,"date":"2022-03-14T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2023-10-25T21:08:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:08:01","slug":"franz-liszt-also-admired-the-steinway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/liszt-ferenc-elismeroen-nyilatkozott-steinway-rol\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Liszt also admired the Steinway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franz Liszt<\/strong> spent his summers from 1869 until his teath in Weimar<\/strong>, in the gardener's apartment received from Prince Carl Alexander. The piano presented to him by Steinway & Sons in 1883 was also placed here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liszt az al\u00e1bbi levelet \u00edrta k\u00f6sz\u00f6netk\u00e9ppen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Weimar, 1883<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Steinway,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most esteemed Sir, \u2013 again I owe you many and special thanks. The new Steinway grand is a glorious masterpiece in power, sonority, singing qualits and perfect harmonic effects, affording delight even to my old piano-weary fingers. Ever continuing success remains a beautiful attribute of the world-renowned firm of Steinway & Sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In your letter, highly esteemed Sir, you mention some new features in the grand piano; the vibrating body being bent into form out of one continuous piece, and that portion of the strings heretofore lying dormant, being now a part of the foundation tones and incorporated therein as partial tones. Their utility is emphatically guaranteed by the name of the inventor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owing to my ignorance of the mechanism of the piano construction, I can but praise the magnificent result in the volume and quality of sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very respectfully and gratefully,<\/p>\nFranz Liszt\"<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The later history of the imposing, brown instrument is quite adventurous. Three years later, Liszt gave the piano to his granddaughter, Daniela von B\u00fclow, who also became a pianist. Daniela is the eldest daughter of Liszt's daughter, Cosima Wagner. She was born in 1860, from Cosima's first marriage to the conductor Hans von B\u00fclow. In 1886, she married the art historian Henry Thode, and this piano was a wedding present from Daniela's grandfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liszt died in the same year, and the Duke of Weimar turned Liszt's residence into a museum, where Liszt's previous piano, a Bechstein, was exhibited. Daniela had the Steinway transported to her husband's estate in Italy, Villa Cargnacco. Daniela divorced her husband in 1914, and the villa was nationalized, and it, together with the piano, fell into the hands of a later tenant, the poet, writer, and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D'Annunzio died in 1938, and after a hard fight, Daniela regained her rights to the piano and donated the instrument to the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan. The noble instrument can still be viewed today in the museum, in the vaulted bay of one of the exhibition halls.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liszt Ferenc 1869-t\u0151l hal\u00e1l\u00e1ig a ny\u00e1ri h\u00f3napokat jellemz\u0151en Weimar-ban, a Carl Alexander hercegt\u0151l kapott kert\u00e9szlakban t\u00f6lt\u00f6tte. Ide ker\u00fclt az a zongora is, amivel a Steinway & Sons aj\u00e1nd\u00e9kozta meg 1883-ban. Liszt az al\u00e1bbi levelet \u00edrta k\u00f6sz\u00f6netk\u00e9ppen: \u201eWeimar, 1883 Steinway \u00dar, Legtiszteltebb Uram, – ism\u00e9t sok \u00e9s k\u00fcl\u00f6nleges k\u00f6sz\u00f6nettel tartozom \u00d6nnek. Az \u00faj Steinway hangversenyzongora egy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Liszt Ferenc is elismer\u0151en nyilatkozott a Steinway-r\u0151l","_seopress_titles_desc":"A m\u0171v\u00e9sz 1883-ban aj\u00e1nd\u00e9kba kapott egy zongor\u00e1t a Steinway & Sons-t\u00f3l. Az impoz\u00e1ns, barna hangszer ma is megtekinthet\u0151.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erdekessegek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zongoraiskola.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}