Enrico Toselli

During his lifetime, Enrico Toselli's fame derived mainly from a scandalous affair and marriage to Archduchess Luise of Austria-Tuscany. For a time the press and public overlooked the fact that he was a brilliant concert pianist and successful composer largely of light classical music. Toselli himself actually capitalized on his relationship with the Archduchess, who was the divorced former princess of Saxony, by writing a book about his stormy four-year affair with her. But for all his fame Toselli was ultimately not such a lucky fellow, dying at 42 and remembered for only a ...