Virtuoso Franz Liszt as Composer

Shows Liszt giving a concert of his own compositions, including Leibestraum, Second Hungarian Rapsody, and First Piano Concerto in Rome, on the eve of his wedding to Princess Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein in 1861. Records that following the concert, Liszt and his fiance abandoned their wedding plans when they learned that the annulment of her previous marriage had been rescinded by the Papal Court. Explains that Liszt then turned to the composition of sacred music., A Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1960 Columbia Pictures feature film, "Song Without End". In 1861, Franz Liszt travels to Rome to marry Princess Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein, who seeks a Papal annulment of her previous marriage. Liszt performs a concert of his own compositions, including Leibestraum, Second Hungarian Rapsody, and First Piano Concerto. Following the concert, Liszt and his fiance abandoned their wedding plans when they learn that the annulment of her previous marriage had been rescinded by the Papal Court. Liszt later took minor orders as an abbé and turned thereafter to the composition of sacred music.