International exhibition jointly organized with the colleagues of the Fondazione Istituto Liszt of Bologna and the cooperation of the Istituto Italiano, Budapest.

The main attractions on display are the portraits of the royal friends of the composer and the most important venues where these encounters took place. Among others excerpts from letters by Karl Alexander Grand Duke of Weimar, Augusta the Prussian Princess (later to become Queen of Prussia) or the letters of gratitude by Frederick William IV. and Napoleon III.

The idea of our new international exhibition came from Listomania Internaional and our French colleagues based on the plans of putting Liszt’s opera Don Sanche on stage in the theater of Debrecen followed by a performance on the premises of the Liszt festivals in Châteauroux France, in October 2015. The exhibition would also be part of the Châteauroux events...

New temporary exhibition opens on 20 May 18:00 in the Chamber Hall of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum.

The main idea of our new exhibition Wagner and his Hungarian Friends is to show the life long friendship between Liszt and Wagner, the positive effect it had on their career, the extraordinary admiration the two geniuses had for each others work and how they benefited from all this as musicians...