Marie-Louse Motesiczky (1906-1996) was part of a Jewish aristocratic family whose friends over the years constitute a veritable ???who???s who??? of European intellectuals, including composers such as Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Franz Liszt, Samuel Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti; the dancer Anna Pavlova; the artists Franz von Lenbach, Hans Makart, Oskar Kokoschka, Anna Mahler (daughter of Gust