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[steepholm]

Just heard on Radio 4 while making coffee (prior to marking, natch): "It's not enough to say that without Paganini there would have been no Liszt, Chopin or Schumann. Without Paganini there would have been no Jimi Hendrix."

Very true. And, one might add in a slightly different vein, no Julian Lloyd Webber neither.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's good to make those connections.

Did you ever see Ken Russell's Listzomania- which portrayed Liszt and Wagner as duelling rock gods? Liszt was played by Roger Daltry and Ringo Starr had a cameo role as the pope.