Liszt Statue Unveiled in Ireland
21 January 2015
The Cork School of Music’s Fleischmann Library in Ireland was chosen to be the location for a bronze bust of Franz Liszt, by the distinguished Hungarian sculptress, Katalin Gerő.
Her busts of Liszt are widely acclaimed - one is sited in the centre of Budapest, another was donated by Budapest to Warsaw on the occasion of the Liszt bicentenary in 2011, and the third is in Belgrade’s Manjez Park, near the Serbian Faculty of Music.
The unveiling ceremony was preceded by a short recital by Hungarian pianist, Dávid Szilasi, who gave a beautiful interpretation of Liszt's Czardas obstinée and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12.