Liszt - Réminiscences de “La Scala“, S458 (Andreas Pistorius)

Many many thanks to Krisztián for providing the scans for this piece. While living in Como (around 1837), Liszt went several times to the La Scala opera house in Milan and heard a number of works in performances which were for the most part pretty bad. He said so in print while also stating some rather acid remarks about the state of opera-goers’ understanding and behaviour (Alan Walker however manages to prove that these essays had actually been published by Marie d’Agoult during Liszt’s absence) and brou