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Liszt: George Sand
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In a letter to Charles Saint-Beuve of December 22, 1834, Liszt wrote, he would very soon leave Paris for a voyage.[164] But for the following three weeks he was still in Paris. On December 24, he dined together with some of his friends[165], and on December 25 and 28, he took part in concerts of François Stoepel and Berlioz.[166] On January 3, 1835, he dined together with Marie d'Agoult.[167] A letter to Marie d'Agoult, written in the early morning of January 4, shows that tensions must have occurred. Liszt had received a billet of Marie d'Agoult with complaints about his lack of emotions and his egoism. In the letter of January 4, Liszt assured, he had not met George Sand. He was in so far right, but he met George Sand on January 5. George Sand had invited him and Heine for a dinner.[168] In the letter of January 4, Liszt ... wrote, he would wait for Marie d'Agoult's return.[169] Accordingly, she had retreated to Croissy.
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Marie d'Agoult and George Sand, partners to Liszt and Chopin respectively, plagued the public with catty gossip - disguised in the form of pathetic literature. Each woman dipping her pen in poison to concoct a nasty novel about their former lover. Both scathing novels painted lame pictures of Liszt and Chopin, with the failed hopes of making fiction nonfiction.
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Song without end is the only existing movie about Liszt which was created with a biographic attempt. It is supposed to be a plot of Liszt's life between the 1830s and the 1860s. The conditions in which the movie was created explain why it was not a frank success. Originally meant to be directed by Charles Vidor, it was finally realized by George Cukor, after Vidor's death. When Cukor arrived on the stage where almost everything had already been set up, he had great difficulty to assign new directions starting from a project that lookes more like a carricature of Liszt than anything else. A lot of details were changed, but the final version remains far enough from reality.
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Liszt and George Sand met at end of October or in the beginning of November 1834. Like Liszt himself, she was fond of Saint-Simonian ideology.[149] She ... took interest in the Abbé de Lamennais, whom she had wanted to visit at La Chênaie.[150] Due to the crisis in her love affaire with Musset, the voyage was cancelled. In letters of November 20 and 21, she also cancelled portrait sittings with Delacroix.[151] In a letter to Musset she threatened, she would commit suicide, cut her hair and enter a monastery.[152]
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[I]t's keen to note that Sand was informed of a back-stabbing letter that Marie wrote about her and Liszt, while they all were still friends, and retaliated by painting a grim picture of Marie in her novel Horace. Sand ... informed Balzac of Marie's cold nature prompting Balzac to cast a cold portrait of Marie in his book Beatrix, which many feel is a fairly accurate portrayal. Those who rallied behind the notion of the angelic Marie coldly abandoned by the demonic Liszt were only duped by this feline fabricator of fiction. Evidently many writers repeated this gossip as even the 1960 film "Song Without End" was laced with these false and pathetic aberrations.
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