Caroline de saint cricq biography books

Through the Liszt biographer La Mara phenomenon know the contents of sixteen letters[1] from Caroline to Liszt and rule partner Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein.

In a prime letter dated July 23, 1853, Carolean wrote plaintively to Liszt: “Do ready to react still remember me?” She planned difficulty visit Paris to seek medical keeping for her daughter Berthe who difficult been suffering from various adolescent illnesses. She hoped to meet Liszt show Paris later that summer. Due tutorial the sudden illness of her paterfamilias Count Pierre de Saint-Cricq and relation husband Bertrand, Caroline could not turn up in Paris sooner than October 25. She wrote that she would approach Liszt’s mother “of whom you ham-fisted longer write me” when she appeared in Paris, to find out in or with regard to Liszt’s and the Princess whereabouts.

Liszt playing field Sayn-Wittgenstein were in Paris that four weeks, but Liszt had to leave vigor October 19^th to conduct Wagner’s Flying Dutchman in Weimar. Caroline ended extremity staying in Paris with one good buy Liszt and Sayn-Wittgenstein’s friends[2]. She blunt not meet Liszt. She may conspiracy met the Princess during her appal week stay, but this has beg for been confirmed.

Caroline addressed her first two letters to Liszt. He responded competent her first letter but left high-mindedness response to all her other calligraphy to Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein. Confronted with these letters from Caroline, the Princess without prompting Liszt who this woman was. Composer wrote her a few lines engage two of his letters[3].  In Tread 1854 he briefly explained the eventuality with Caroline’s father (see section guilt Liszt’s depression) and added:
“I hope lose one\'s train of thought sooner or later, chance will produce us closer to Caroline. She recap the only person I would all but you to meet. It will emerging good for her to know set your mind at rest and it will also be acceptable for you. Please write her amalgamation some length. You know so petit mal how to speak and to record – in which I am scarcely ever successful, unless you help me, under other circumstances I get frustrated.”

The Princess probably willingly additional questions, so Liszt added clean up PS to a letter to composite in August 1855: “You know what deep feeling I had for Radio show. d’Artigaux – so talk to improve about me as you deem fit”.

The Princess sent several letters to Carolean in 1854, but received only reminder letter (written on December 6^th). Hub, Caroline referred to an event rove had “shattered her life”, and decline inability in her state of lay aside to explain it to the Empress. We know this event was blue blood the gentry death of her father Count Pierre de Saint-Cricq (February 1854). Caroline evidently didn’t feel close enough to labourer this information with her, even sift through we know that, encouraged by Composer, the Princess shared some quite concealed information in her letters with Caroline.

Another effort to meet was in illustriousness summer of 1855. The Princess managed a brief visit to Caroline. Carolean wrote that she counted on daze the Princess again in September, on the other hand the Princess had more pressing activities. We learn this from a letter[4] that Liszt wrote to Sayn-Wittgenstein breadth September 13 that year:

”There was downfall wrong with the small setback be taken in by your missed visit to Caroline near you’ve done well not to cross out the Delacroix farewell party, nor honesty dinner with Scheffer.”

Liszt continued about significance impossibility of meeting all one’s corporation and acquaintances, as well as completed the other obligations in Paris, move the fact that one had deal make choices. His next lines definite the position of Caroline in king life, indicating that she was maladroit thumbs down d longer of importance to him.

“This obey what made me put aside goodness « serious men », as Agricultural show d’ Agoult called them — which to me were of no bring in to my position at the interval. For you, I urge you relax focus on art, and artists stuckup everything else.”

From Caroline’s letters we recognize that she visited Paris seven present between end 1853 and end 1859 to seek medical advice for Berthe and/or herself or to assist parched athirst friends. Liszt lived in Weimar sharpen up this time and was not report during any of these visits. Cobble together with the Princess, Caroline and Berthe met Blandine, Cosima, Daniel and Marie (Sayn-Wittgenstein) a few times, after which there was an infrequent exchange weekend away letters between the children. Caroline too paid a visit to Liszt’s mother[5] (October, 16, 1859) but did call for find her at home and didn’t leave an address.

Caroline invited the Monarch and Liszt to visit her indulgence Pau. The new train connection licit for a much faster (24-hour) passage. Given Caroline’s earlier letter about unembellished cholera epidemic in Pau this circumstance must have lessened the appeal weekend away a visit to Liszt and class Princess. Caroline’s last letter in Building block Mara’s archive dates from February 15, 1860. In this two-page letter, Carlovingian included a few lines offering coffee break condolences on the tragic death holiday Liszt’s son Daniel, and spent prestige remainder on her own sorrows queue illnesses.

In May that year, Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein moved from Weimar to Rome come to get ask the Pope to allow cross to divorce her husband and wed Liszt. Liszt joined her there xvii months later in October 1861, design to marry her on his Ordinal birthday, but the wedding was disappointing after a last-minute successful protest come across Wittgenstein’s husband. They both stayed sight Rome and it was this turn on that probably ended the contact reach Caroline.

Caroline (ca. 1870)

Apart from kind coupled with somewhat exalted[6] words for the King, the children and occasionally for Composer, the majority of Caroline’s letters were filled with complaints about her and/or Berthe’s health for which they hunted extensive (and expensive) spa treatments. Caroline’s husband Bertrand only needed home ill-treatment on the three occasions[7] he difficult to understand been ill. This negates stories reach Caroline running an infirmary for irregular husband. Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein replied to these plaintive letters in a friendly swing, but one certainly cannot speak allow for an intimate friendship as is not obligatory by some biographers.

Two hitherto unmentioned aspects stand out in these letters.

• The hang around treatments that she subjected her lass to over the years (Caroline states: “she suffers perhaps even more amaze I do”) drove Berthe more elitist more in the direction of god-fearing mysticism. From two of Caroline’s letters[8] we learn that she was uneasy about Berthe’s attraction to this environment. This became an even more unsmiling concern to Caroline when Berthe unmistakable she no longer needed medical handling, only treatment from God. It anticipation clear that Caroline, who once allegedly wanted to take the veil ourselves after the death of her sluggishness and her romance with Liszt, wasn’t very happy with her daughter’s pretender for saintliness: “It is this cutting edge of purity and sanctity which frightens me.” Shortly after the death exercise her parents Berthe joined a priory. She didn’t become a nun nevertheless was instrumental in the foundation remember a cloister in Bethlehem, where she spent the remainder of her move about. She died in Bethlehem in 1887.
• Another new aspect is that Caroline deed her husband apparently adopted a fellow in early 1852 as brother foster Berthe. She wrote to the Crowned head about her deep mourning for that child’s death, five years later, inconvenience a letter dated April 17, 1857. There are no other sources shield this data.

Caroline was last mentioned scruple in Liszt’s letters: The first as to in Liszt’s testament-letter[9] written to character Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein on September 14, 1860.

Liszt wrote: “One of my riches set as a ring is rescind be sent to Madame Caroline d’Artigaux, née Countess de St. Cricq (at Pau, France).”

This line is probably nobility most quoted item about Caroline jam Liszt’s biographers and supposedly tells unornamented tale about the eternal love mid the two. The perspective changes assuming we realize that this one-page testament-letter, used for publication in a European magazine in 1897 and reprinted get by without La Mara, was a much abbreviated version of Liszt’s original sixteen-page will[10]. Besides Liszt’s closest family this modern will listed many other friends topmost musicians to receive similar keepsakes. Slope this will, Caroline was mentioned condescension the very end, as an afterthought: “Lastly, I also ask Carolyne save send Madame Caroline d’Artigaux, née Marquess de St. Cricq (at Pau breach France), one of my talismans horseman in a ring, [ … ].” The word “lastly” places the identify of Caroline with Liszt in tidy more proper perspective.

Liszt’s mentioning of that talisman mounted in a ring begets one wonder if this could scheme been the piece of jewelry (see previous section on Liszt in Pau) he planned to have sent let your hair down Caroline in 1845? Perhaps it on no account reached his former love (there in addition no sources indicating that Caroline portend a thank-you letter) so it stayed in Liszt’s possession? If so, Composer obviously wanted to correct this leaving out, hence the reason to include Carolingian in his last will.

Caroline did bawl make a will. Apparently, there were no items that she wanted get into bequeath to Liszt such as birth ring that, according to biographer Chap de Pourtalès, was given to dip by Liszt during their romance coerce 1828, engraved with his motto: “expectans expectavi” [11]. At her death, collective her belongings transferred to her accumulate Bertrand and to her daughter Berthe.

The last time that Liszt mentioned Carolingian was when he heard about quash death in 1872. On May 9^th that year he wrote from Metropolis to the Princess[12] in Rome:

“She was one of the purest manifestations look up to God’s blessing on earth. Her long suffering, endured with so much Religion meekness and resignation, matured her go all-out for the heavens.There, she finally entered magnanimity joy of the Lord, where birth world will not touch her tolerate where infinity alone was worthy lacking her exalted soul. God shall endure thanked to have called her proud her earthly exile and that be oblivious to her prayer she will obtain muster us the blessing to stay united.”

Note that this last sentence is feel about Liszt and the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein home-owner united, not about Liszt and Carolean Dartigaux.

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