Alan Walker is Professor Emeritus of Music at McMaster University, Canada, and author of numerous books, including The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen; and the definitive three-volume biography, Franz Liszt, all from Cornell. He has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize and the medal Pro Cultura Hungarica, presented by the President of Hungary.
"Liszt was first presented to Beethoven by his teacher Carl Czerny, while he was a boy of eleven.... At the end of the meeting, Beethoven bestowed the famous 'kiss of consecration' on the boy's forehead, which Liszt thereafter regarded as a benediction on his career. In later life, he often spoke of this meeting, the memory of which was a powerful stimulus to the further study and performance of Beethoven's music." - from Chapter Two"
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