In the corridors of Buckingham Palace, the air seemed to be wrapped in heavy drapes, even the echo felt hesitant.
From afar came faint notes, the sound of the Royal Orchestra tuning their strings, sounding like a beast on the verge of suffocation, emitting intermittent breaths in its throat.
Talberg sat in front of the mirror, his posture as perfect and composed as ever, but the eyes in the mirror inadvertently betrayed the tension and anxiety within him.
Although he and Liszt were peers, both prodigious musical talents.
Yet there was evidently a gap between one prodigy and another.
Liszt became famous at thirteen during a concert at the Louvre Palace Theater in Paris, and at that time the media already began to compare him with Mozart, with all of Paris falling for him. This concert launched his dazzling tour career, with Liszt's footsteps covering all of Europe in the following twelve years.
