A new temporary exhibition at the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum - Royal Majesties around Franz Liszt

A new temporary exhibition will be opened at the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum with the title "Royal Majesties around Franz Liszt" in collaboration with Ágnes Watzatka and Lili Békéssy on 12 May 2016. The exhibition will be on until May of 2017.

What can we see in this exhibition?

Especially the portraits of royal friends of Liszt and the places where these friendships or casual acquaintances came about. We can read the friendly letter of Grand Duke Karl Alexander of Weimar, the touching lines of the Prussian Duchess and later German Empress Augusta, the acknowledgments of Frederick William IV. and Napoleon III.. We can also see some special documents: Liszt’s appointment as conductor in the court of Weimar, his certificate of French Legion of Honour, the document of the papal Saint George Order and even the representative certificate of the Austrian Order of the Iron crown.

„The cultivation of memories of the past would even them be my obligation, if I could not find consolation in it.” (Augusta Marie Luise Katharina von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach)

Besides these, the printed and handwritten music from the score collection of Franz Liszt are the main materials of the exhibition, in which decorated dedications recall the crowned friends, benefactors and supporters of Liszt.

The exhibition opening will take place on 12 May 2016 at 6 pm in the Chamber Hall of the Old Music Academy, where in connection with the occasion the pianist István Lajkó will perform.