Carolyne de Sayn-Wittgenstein
The Russo-Polish princess, Carolyne de Sayn-Wittgenstein , sister of the tsar, was born in 1819 and died the March 8th 1887 with Rome.
She had a girl, the princess Marie, the February 18th 1837.
One knows it for his attachment with Franz Liszt, large seducer, whom it met with Kiev in 1847 during one of its rounds. Their meeting corresponded with the desire which any orchestral composition had Liszt to cease.
The large-duke of Weimar having offered to Liszt the prestigious post of choirmaster, it joined there it in February 1848 and they lived twelve years there. They increased the musical radiation of the city by inviting many musicians, of which several times Berlioz, which maintained with the princess a correspondence 1852 with 1867. She in particular encouraged it to write Troyens , of which it dedicated the partition to Virgile ( Divo Virgilio ) but also to the princess Carolyne de Sayn-Wittgenstein!
The scandal pulled by the fact that Liszt attended a woman then married contributed to their removal towards the Italy in the years 1860. They did not marry, although it could divorce.
Their frequentation lasted some forty years and they died in eight month of interval, which made them a legendary couple, following the example George Sand and Alfred de Musset.
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