Without the Villa d'Este in Tivoli near Rome there probably would not be the splendour of the Orangery Palace with its magnificent terraces in Sanssouci. It is an icon of renaissance culture and an incredibly charismatic monument to the art of gardening. In 1864 Franz Liszt came to Tivoli for the first time and experienced an enchanted garden with gigantic cypresses from the days of Michelangelo. The park had been left abandoned for many years and its reconstruction had only just begun. Yet some of the 500 fountains had already been revived and inspired Liszt to write his impressionistically shimmering "water garden", which tear open the horizon and make way for Ravel's and Debussy's worlds of sound. An evening with the piano poets and multi-award winning Russian pianist Yury Martynov playing on an instrument as Ravel and Debussy may also played on it.