THE LISZT CENTENARY AT HEIDELBERG (1912) The Liszt centenary was celebrated everywhere with elaborate festivities, perhaps most notably at Budapest where the _Missa Solemnis_ was sung in the great cathedral--that alone would have been sufficient glory for the composer.

At Weimar, which, during his lifetime, Liszt made a sort of musical Mecca, they gave a performance of his deeply charming oratorio _Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth_.

The festival at Heidelberg was of special interest as it was organized by the General Association of German Musicians which Liszt had founded fifty years before.

Each year this society gives in a different city a festival which lasts several days.

It admits foreign members and I was once a member as Berlioz's successor on Liszt's own invitation.