During his early years Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso his adventures highlighted by his entrampeacutee into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time. In this second volume of Janita HallSwadleyamprsquos The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt Lisztamprsquos work as a music essayist and journalist is on full display. In his essays readers will see the influence of the revolutionary theories of HuguesFelicitampeacute Robert de Lamennais Victor Hugo and FranampccediloisRenampeacute 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.