International meeting of the European Liszt Memorial Houses

On September 10 2016 we organized an international meeting of the European Liszt Memorial Houses in the Liszt Ferenc Chamber Hall of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum Budapest on the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Museum. The event was part of the International Liszt Competition organized by the Filharmonia Magyarország Kft. The guests included representatives of the Memorial Houses in Austria and Germany, who held interesting lectures about their work. Dr. Evelyn Liepsch the coworker of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv talked about the most important activities of the Weimar Liszt House, which was opened not long after the composer’s death. Martin Czernin the scientific coworker of Liszt’s Memorial House of Raiding and of the Landesmuseum Eisenstadt and Thomas Mersich the head coordinator of the Raiding Liszt Festivals talked about Liszt’s birthplace and about the concert life in Raiding. Hans Emmert talked about the Liszt Memorial Room in the Schillingsfürst Castle, Prince Constantin elaborated on the history of the Hohenlohe- Schillingsfürst family which is many ways connected to Liszt. The founding director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum Budapest recalled the birth of the museum and talked about the most interesting events between 1986 and 2009. The current director Dr. Zsuzsanna Domokos described the wide range of activities the museum staff is involved in. all lectures were held in English and it was free. Hopefully this event was the first step in establishing long term cooperation between the memorial houses, and there will be many similar events in the future.