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A Dream of Love (1938)
Liszt's First Love
This was Franz Liszt's (1811-1886) first love: Carollne de Saint-Cricq. He was a poor budding pianist and she was a seventeen year-old daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. She was Liszt's pupil and they soon fell in love. Caught by her father Liszt was soon fired and she was forced into an arranged marriage to someone of her status.
Liszt had a major vocational crisis after the forced breakup and seriously thought of entering the priesthood. He did not and instead lived to have other loves during his life.He eventually received the four minor orders of the Church.
Yet Liszt never forgot his first love and treasured the memory as the film shows. Although she died fourteen years before Liszt she was remembered in his will in which he left her his signet-ring.
The fascinating life of Liszt is best told in the three-volume biography by Alan Walker "Frank Liszt."