Volume I Part 34 (1/2)

St George is still very lazy, but he shall work He sends best regards Farewell I must not write h of me

Give ain!

Farewell, farewell, best of hus

Your

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ST MORITZ

PS--The Kroll-Berlin ”Tannhauser” has fallen through after all

Schoneck has just written to me that he has broken with the director, Wallner, because the latter refused to carry out his undertaking as to the excellence of the ensemble

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As usual, dearest friend, you have had an excellent idea It is settled then that we go to Paris, and there have aat the end of September, after the Carlsruhe performances As before then your chief purpose is to see the Mediterranean, I advise you to go to Genoa and Marseilles, and thence to Paris Napoleon says, ”La Mediterranee est un lac francais,” so you o from your Swiss lakes to the French lake for a feeeks and then come to me in Paris

By the ht of Paris will be quite enough for us

Therefore this is settled

T will be very welcome at Weymar He wrote to me once or twice before, and, between ourselves, I have heard several things about him which make me think that his character is not oversolid But that does not o I received a letter from Berlioz, in answer to s about you

I quote the following lines:--

”Our art, as we understand it, is an art of millionaires; it requires millions As soon as these millions are found every difficulty disappears; every dark intellect is illumined; moles and foxes are driven back into the earth; the marble block becomes a God, and the public human: without these millions we remain clodhoppers after thirty years' exertion

”And yet there is not a sovereign, not a Rothschild, ill understand this Is it not possible that, after all, ith our secret pretensions, should simply be stupid and insolent fools?

”I aner and I should fit each other if only he would grease his wheels a little As to the few lines of which you speak, I have never read thehtest resentment on their account I have fired too s of passers-by to be astonished at receiving a few pellets myself”

In Paris we shall continue the subject;I hope to find a few lines from you, and by the end of thisI can be in Paris If in the meantime I should have to write to you, I shall address to Zurich, as you must to Weymar

Farewell, and be cheerful, and do not talk nonsense about what youI shall attend to the ”Lohengrin” affair; so far I have heard nothing about it

Your

FRANZ LISZT

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