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Article: Franz Liszt: A family connection.(Karol Bernard Zaluski)(Column)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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WHILE researching the musical history of my family, which goes back to the Polish composer, Prince Michal Kleofas Oginski, I discovered, through my great grand-uncle and Oginski's grandson, Count Karol Zaluski, a tantalising connection with Liszt. He was fleetingly mentioned twice in Liszt's correspondence, and once in the annals of family legend, in which he is reputed to have visited the Ostaszewskis of Wzdow, the family into which Karol's older sister, the pianist, Emma, married. No date is given, and the occasion remains a matter of speculation, but there is enough documentary evidence to piece together an interesting sub-plot to the Liszt story.
Karol ...