Sultan Abdülmecid: A Tale of Pianos, Telegraphs, Etiquette and Hunger

Sultan Abdülmecid: A Tale of Pianos, Telegraphs, Etiquette and Hunger

In 1847, the enlightened Abdülmecid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, enjoyed a series of private piano performances by Franz Liszt, contributed generously to Irish famine relief, and green-lighted the laying down of Morse’s electrical telegraph, which he had test-run by...