I won’t make a habit out of posting WIPs but since today is Wagner’s birthday, I thought I’d give a little sneak peak into my next comic…

(Liszt is saying: Beethoven is really amazing, isn’t he?”)

This is something I wanted to draw since back when I was more into Chopin (about 4 years ago I think?) but I was never able to draw fighting. I always imagined this when reading about the two couples together, George Sand and Marie d’Agoult killing each other, Liszt blissfully ignorant/oblivious and Chopin just wondering wtf he was doing in the middle of these people…

As a fun fact, I was listening to ode to joy while drawing the two women fighting (which lead my to the idea of Beethoven)…

Liszt and Princess Carolyne. These two just did not give a ****.

(background is a drawing of the Altenburg by Friedrich Preller d. Ä)

Liszt: So, what do you think?
Schober: Well I find…
Woman: OMG- IT’S LISZT!!
bubbles: What are you doing?! OW! I have it!! Careful! MINE!
Liszt: So anyway, where were we?
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Poor Liszt, not able to go outside on his own without that happening. People honestly would cut up his jackets… And if he was in a carriage they sometimes got rid of the horses and pulled it themselves. Aye.
Schober, the man Liszt was talking with, isn’t especially important for the actual comic, but he was Franz Schubert’s best friend and also good friends with Liszt… Though he should be older here, but in this case he’s just background.

Wow, English for once!

Basically, I’m just very tired of Chopin always being portrayed as the weak effeminate sick fearful angel and Liszt the… well devil I guess? I remember I got into Chopin through some old friends of mine who both painted him in such a light, imagine my shock when I started reading about the real man! And don’t get me started on poor Liszt…

Soooo I’m really bad with updates. Not for lack of ideas, don’t get me wrong there, I’m keeping a book full of them, just the time and inspiration to do so… *cough*

Buuut I’m going to Scotland again later today and I’ll be staying with my dear friend for that time annnd she’ll be working so I might have a lot of time to draw.
For now here’s a work in progress of my favourite guy. Don’t question too much the writing, it’s an ‘injoke’…

A little off topic for this blog, but this is an important picture.

A good friend of mine died a few weeks ago of cancer. She was a great fan of Felix Mendelssohn and Jenny Lind and was even working on a screenplay about the “Swedish Nightingale”. I had been meaning for such a long time to draw here these two but never got around to it so the least I could do was draw this in her memory.  : (
She will be missed dearly.

That’s all for now.

Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein and her daughterchen Marie 

“I give you a short summary of my evening with Nélida…”

Marie d’Agoult: I am writing my ‘Confessions’
Liszt: I don’t think that you are able to write ‘confessions’. Perhaps a better title would be “Poses and Lies”

“I of course will not be invited back”

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Fitting to my last comic, no? Forgive me Liszt, your handwriting is Jane Austen’s…

As a special treat for his seventh birthday, On October 22, 1818, the small boy was allowed to travel with his father to Lackenbach, where Adam had some business with a wealthy merchant called Ruben Hirschler. The daughter of this merchant, Fanni, had just been given a piano, recently arrived from Vienna. Adam requested the girl to play something for his young son, who, he explained, also loved music. When the lad heard the playing he could say nothing, his eyes filled with tears, and he threw himself weeping into the arms of his father. This scene so moved the elderly merchant that he gave the piano to the boy. It was a wonderful birthday gift.

(Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847, 1983, S. 60)

Another one finished for the birthday set.