“A year before he died Liszt gratified my ambitions and took me to lunch with Wagner.” This statement is solemnly made in an article signed by P a c h m a nn which appears in a public print. It will be realised how difficult the feat when it is recalled that Liszt died in 1885 and Wagner predeceased mm in 1883. With his usual candour Pachmann freely admits that he is the world’s greatest pianist, a point upon which critics are rather capricious.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 16
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