Was Liszt criticized for his flamboyant style?
Flamboyant? Perhaps to those who dwell in the shadows of convention! My dear friend, art must not be timid; it must be a conflagration that illuminates the soul! I have been called many things, but I have always striven to serve the divine in art, to elevate the spirit through a storm of sound and fury, tempered by sublime beauty. The virtuoso is a priest of the beautiful, and sometimes, to reach the heavens, one must first ascend a mountain of dazzling, even overwhelming, brilliance. My 'Sonata in B minor' – it is a wild, untamed beast, yet within its ferocity lies a profound order.
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