Franz LISZT (1811-1886)

Autograph Message Signed (“ F Liszt”) to composer and conductor Franz von Lachner,  asking him to come and visit him that evening. 
c. 7 x 10½ cms, in German, on the verso of his visiting card which bears his facsimile signature, n.p., 19 December 1856.            
Trans: “It would be very kind of you, Herr von Lachner, if you could spare me just half an hour during the course of this evening and come to see me.”
Franz Liszt and Franz von Lachner were both successful composers at the time, Liszt the more exciting and progressive, Lachner more conservative. Lachner is today, unfortunately, relatively unknown.
At the time of writing, Liszt was Kapellmeister at the court at Weimar; Lachner occupied a similar position at the court at Munich. It is unclear whether they were both in Weimar or in Munich when this was written.
Lachner’s career would later by clouded by the intervention of Liszt’s son-in-law, Richard Wagner, who was highly critical of his work.
The imageon the verso of the message is the facsimile signature.

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