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- Karl Klindworth’s cousin, Agnes Street‐Klindworth, joined him in Weimar in 1853, the daughter of Georg Klindworth (a confidant of Metternich). When mentioned at all usually that she was following Karl to take piano lessons, and she did have some slight talent though not at all at the level of some of those already there.
- Alan Walker suggests, using copious but of course biased evidence, that not only her father but she was serving as a spy (the situation in Weimar was unsettled at the time, as there was a change in regime, son replacing deceased father in the court) and further and interestingly that Liszt risked his relationship with the Princess von Sayn-Wittgenstein by entering into an affair with her (his only one during his years in Weimar, I believe, but a somewhat prolonged one). (Walker, Liszt: The Weimar Years, 1848-1861, paperback Cornell University Press ed pp 209 – 224.) Thoughts?? Schissel 17:13, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
