By the mid 19th century music was firmly in the grasp of the Romantics. In these volumes of collected letters, a rare fine, the correspondence of the two giants of romantic music share their thoughts. Franz Liszt Well established and acknowledged as the outstanding performer offers friendship and support to Richard Wagner, the wild man.
As Wagner gradually became the elder statesman in his own right he may have left behind political rebellion only to establish it in his own music.
These letters between genuine friend, and supporters of each others art, open up the history and turmoil of Europe, and how the arts survived in war.