15 See Leon Plantinga, ʻWhy the Virtuosi Stopped Playingʼ, in 'En pèlerinage avec Liszt': Virtuosos, Repertoire and Performing Venues in 19th-Century Europe, ed. Fulvia Morabito, Speculum Musicae 24 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 249–58.
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