Talk:Karl Tausig

A few comments
Hi, nice and brief article on Tausig. I have a couple of suggestions: It may be mentioned that his father was pianist Aloys Tausig, which introduced Carl to Liszt when Carl was 14. Also, I daresay he didn't write a number of pedagogic works; apart from his Daily Studies (which included 6 of his 10 preludes), he just edited other studies (the Gradus ad Parnassum for example). I've compiled a rather complete worklist which could be included here, if of interest. JanTerje 80.202.81.119 22:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Imperceptible signs
... the only sign of tension from Tausig would be an imperceptible tightening of one corner of his mouth ...
 * So, the obvious question is: If it was "imperceptible", how did anyone know he was doing it? --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   20:49, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe it was the left corner of his mouth, i.e. the side of the pianist's face the audience does not see, given the usual positioning of a grand piano on a stage ? Red Slash - Smily.png --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 21:25, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe. I'd prefer we didn't guess, though.  If it was perceptible to certain people but not others, we need to establish who were who.  --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   09:13, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I've changed it to "slight". --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  01:28, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Conversion?
The article says Tausig was born Jewish and buried in a Protestant cemetery but doesn't seem to mention a conversion. Can anyone speak to that? It seems to be an important aspect of him as a person, if not necessarily as a pianist. 76.193.191.86 (talk) 01:21, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

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How do you spell Carl?
Or how did Tausig spell it? I've seen:


 * Karl (he lived in Germany after all),
 * Carl (maybe the spelling only in English and sometimes France?),
 * Charles (or Ch. for short; that's French spelling, not English),
 * Karel (I believe that would be the Polish spelling, and he was Polish, though Jewish so that might make it different),
 * Karol (is that Polish? then what is Karel? maybe another East Euopean spelling like Czech?)

Oh who knows, this is very confusing and inconsistent. (Definitely NOT seen Chuck. which is American.) (nor Charlie, heh. so many varieties.) His first initial is given always either K or C, we know that much, but I'd like to narrow that down...

Would be nice to know:


 * 1) what he was born as (on his birth certificate),
 * 2) what he went by most of his adult life, and
 * 3) how he signed his name.
 * 4) And of course: did he ever change #1 (legally), #2 (by choice or other people's habit or mistake), and #3 (by forced design or by conformity to community prevalency)?

Or was he very inconsistent throughout?...

LisztianEndeavors (talk) 04:05, 26 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Determined his birth name was Karol, his common name in Germany where he lived and worked was Karl, and he was advertised and published as Karl. Carl appears to be just an Anglicized form, used in England and America, and not used by Tausig himself.

Changing all occurrences for this article to Karl, and noting his birthname, and noting Carl only as an alternate. Page name title change with redirect. LisztianEndeavors (talk) 13:07, 20 February 2020 (UTC)