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19 MICHEL DALBERTO When did you first discover Liszt? I certainly didn’t discover hismusic in the course of my studies. In Vlado Perlemuter’s class, Liszt was not a central figure. I must have been fourteen or fifteen years old and I remember his slightly condescending comment to a student who was working on a Liszt concerto: ‘It’s much less difficult than a Chopin concerto!’ Chopin was very clearly one of his all-time favourite composers. He isn’t mine, perhaps because I have always found him a little ‘straightlaced’, unlike Liszt, who can express madness and blast conventions to kingdom come. Where you get a frisson in Chopin, it’s an earthquake in Liszt!