Carlos Gallardo, An unknown worshipping of the grotesque

No account of Liszt’s activity in Paris during the Thirties would be complete without passing mention of the anecdotes arising around him from the very beginning of his career. This short article is about a curious fact first published in two Parisian journals La Gazette médicale and Le Pianiste. On the basis of the effect made by Liszt’s piano playing on a neurotic woman, he was credited to have invented… music therapy.

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