He is here—the Attila, the scourge of God for all the pianos of Erard, which tremble already at the news of his coming, and which now once more are convulsed, bleed, and wail under his hands, so that the Society for the Protection of Animals really ought to look after them!

Heinrich Heine, from “The Musical Season of 1844” in which he described various audience reactions to Franz Liszt, and also coined the term “Lisztomania."