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Studia Musicologica
Author:
Laurence Diagon-Jacquin
In his text Le Persée de Benvenuto Cellini Liszt is more interested in the problems of the artist in the society and of the specificities of the statuary on the music, than in Benvenuto Cellini’s statue itself. So he establishes a parallel between Cellini and Berlioz, identifying both with the mythic hero. He emphasizes “the hidden relationships between works of genius” (letter from Liszt to Berlioz). The differences and similarities between the arts are also explained. The text gives additional information concerning Liszt himself.
