During his early years Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso his adventures highlighted by his entrampampeacutee into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita HallSwadleyampamprsquos The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt Lisztampamprsquos work as a music essayist and journalist is on full display. In his essays readers will see the influence of the revolutionary theories of HuguesFelicitampampeacute Robert de Lamennais Victor Hugo and FranampampccediloisRenampampeacute de Chateaubriand as Liszt boldly calls for social reforms on behalf of musicians and musical institutions from demands for a repertoire of church music of divine praise to the timely publication of inexpensive music editions.