The chorus and the four soloists--their task was exceedingly arduous--triumphed completely over the difficulties of this immense work and all the varied and delicate nuances were rendered to perfection.
Liszt was far from professing the disdain for the limitations of the human voice that Wagner and Berlioz did.

On the contrary he treated it as if it were a queen or a goddess, and it is to be regretted that his tastes did not lead him to work for the stage.

Parts of _Saint Elisabeth_ show that he would have succeeded and the fashion of having operas for the orchestra, accompanied by voices, which we enjoy to-day, might have been avoided.

He discovered a method, peculiarly his own, of writing choruses.

His manner has never been imitated, but it is ingenious and has many advantages.