Volume II Part 6 (1/2)
On board the ”Stadt Zurich,” on the lake of Lucerne, en vue de Brunnen
Remember JULY 31ST
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DEAR, GREAT MAN,
A thousand thanks for the autograph, which will give irl, as sent by her parents to England, and was there taken with home-sickness for the ”Weynerian opera” She ives pianoforte lessons, and from where she comes to Weymar to hear your poems
Ten and a hundred thousand thanks for hted to hear that his articles in the Wey of you to have understood the Dutchman” will conclude this series It is truly a wreath ofwhich he binds there; your dark, noble hero lives, and will live Sleep and solitude are not death; and his vital strength is such, that for a long time to come he will make the round of Europe at certain intervals Beethoven's ”Fidelio” is only just beco acclimatised in London
I am quite happy that the symphonic poe the scores with hi partly copied out and partly revised for engraving, etc, etc But you, dear, great genius, will be the first to read thereater part performed here The music is most beautiful, very noble, very elevated
Your letters give us the same joy which a poor man used only to kicks and coarse copper coin would feel at receiving an alold Give us that alms frequently, because you are none the poorer for it Allow Liszt to e Hulsen, and leave Berlin to hio WELL and, before all, DECENTLY How good, how prudent, how delicate and patient, HE is--that I know Anotherthese six years have sunk and been drowned eighteen times in the stor He alone keeps us still on the surface
Liszt has written to Berlin to find soold,” for which our ears are sighing He whoht would answer your purpose is not free for the present What is needed to in the ”Valkyrie?”
And oh! that wonderful scene between Wotan and Brynhild--the divine Brynhild, who saves Sieglinde! Write at great length; it will do good to our three hearts, which are united and inseparable The whole atently illurant that we may say, ”Au revoir! soon,” and that we soon old,” were it but a sketch If you only kne Liszt sings your poe before Beck had studied it, and still listen and hen he sings it
Do finish your ”Valkyrie” as soon as possible What a work!
Write to us soon You say that H does not knohat thebeautiful and grand?
When a sculptor wants to ranite or ranite and marble are less hard than the heart of man The sculptor, unless he dies, finishes his statue; when a noble thing has to be done, ranite and able He is wholly devoted to your courage and hope I cannot tell you sufficiently how your dear letter has rejoiced e even ood, and I have consequently nothing satisfactory to tell you Returning here, I find a letter fro the perfor up with the following flourish: ”It is obvious that, after two vain attee as I have the honour of being at the head of it I am sorry for this”
From another source I hear, however, that the e, and that in the very highest quarters there is a wish to call me to Berlin The event must show; for the present I have only written a few lines in reply to Hulsen
What is all this story about the Musical Festival? Why did you bolt? Let me knohen you happen to be in the mood
After the Rotterdahters
As soon as e arrears of correspondence are disposed of, I shall settle down to my ”Faust,” which is to be ready by the new year The other things (symphonic poems) will also be in print by that tiued afterable to serve you ood heavens! what can I say to you while
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