As a dilettante Prince Radziwill occupied a no less exalted position in art and science than as a citizen and functionary in the body politic.

To confine ourselves to music, he was not only a good singer and violoncellist, but also a composer; and in composition he did not confine himself to songs, duets, part-songs, and the like, but undertook the ambitious and arduous task of writing music to the first part of Goethe's Faust.

By desire of the Court the Berlin Singakademie used to bring this work to a hearing once every year, and they gave a performance of it even as late as 1879.

An enthusiastic critic once pronounced it to be among modern works one of those that evince most genius.

The vox populi seems to have repealed this judgment, or rather never to have taken cognisance of the case, for outside Berlin the work has not often been heard.