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Jessica Duchen
Wednesday 22nd December 2010
Oversexed, overplayed and over here...
For the Jan/Feb bumper print edition of Standpoint I've written about the 2011 bicentenary boy, Franz Liszt -- an astonishing musical figure, the very embodiment of Romanticism, but one who is still hideously misrepresented by an ongoing focus on his sex life at the expense of all else. Time to reassess. Here's the article.
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About Jessica Duchen
Jessica Duchen is a music journalist and the author of four novels, two biographies and several stage works. She writes regularly for The Independent and BBC Music Magazine. Her latest novel, Songs of Triumphant Love, is published by Hodder.
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