Liszt fever

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Liszt fever (uncountable)

  1. (music, historical) Synonym of Lisztomania.
    • 2013 September, Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe, New York, NY: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 163:
      We all had heard of the phenomenon that was sweeping across Europe wherever the pianist, Franz Liszt, played. [] Most troubling, at least to the men who reported it, was that it was not maids or shopgirls who were succumbing to Liszt fever but respectable wives and daughters, well-trained women who should have known better.