A Dream of Love
While playing the organ at church, elder Franz Liszt receives a bouquet of flowers. With those flowers, he can't help but remember back to a time when he was a younger composer and music teacher, and mutually in love with one of his pupils, Caroline, the Countess de St. Cricq, his muse the inspiration for his musical compositions of love. While Liszt was embraced by the gypsies as the conveyor of the folk music of Hungary to the world, he was not so as a potential suitor to Caroline by the Baron de St. Cricq.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 17m
- Released
- 1938
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1938
Storyline
While playing the organ at church, elder Franz Liszt receives a bouquet of flowers. With those flowers, he can't help but remember back to a time when he was a younger composer and music teacher, and mutually in love with one of his pupils, Caroline, the Countess de St. Cricq, his muse the inspiration for his musical compositions of love. While Liszt was embraced by the gypsies as the conveyor of the folk music of Hungary to the world, he was not so as a potential suitor to Caroline by the Baron de St. Cricq.
Top credits
- Ian Colin — Franz Liszt
Sylvia Marriott — Caroline
Cathleen Nesbitt — Baroness St. Cricq
Cecil Ramage — Baron St. Cricq
Did you know
• Cut to 17 minutes and released in USA as a 2-reel short in Sepiatone.
User reviews
MGM musical short on Franz Liszt's unhappy love affair...
Enjoyable Mush
Not much in the way of story...just like many music videos.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
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