 Liszt taught at the newly founded Geneva Conservatory, wrote a manual of piano technique (later lost) and contributed essays for the Paris "Revue et gazette musicale".In these essays, he argued for the raising of the artist from the status of a servant to a respected member of the community.For the next four years, Liszt and the countess lived together, mainly in Switzerland and Italy, where their daughter, Cosima, was born in Como, with occasional visits to Paris.