Carl Filtsch und Franz Liszt – Zwei Wunderkinder. Musikalisch-literarischer Salon

In the organizer's words:

Carl Filtsch - the musical prodigy from Transylvania - was born in Mühlbach in 1830 and died in Venice at the age of just fifteen. The composer Franz Liszt, one of his patrons, said of him: "Carl Filtsch is one of the most wonderful phenomena that the history of art can enumerate. Neither Mozart, nor Mendelssohn, nor our Bennett promised more at such a childish age than Carl Filtsch!" Liszt and Filtsch played together in Vienna. They improvised four-handed at the piano: Filtsch in the middle, while Liszt illustrated lightning high up with his right hand and thunder low down with his left hand. Liszt called the young Carl "colleague" and "child prodigy of Transylvania" - an accolade that was tantamount to an accolade.

The musical and literary salon will be presented by the Transylvanian author Dagmar Dusil and the Romanian pianist Andrei Preda.

A joint event by the Gerhart Hauptmann House Foundation and the Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany, NRW regional group