Volume II Part 12 (1/2)
Besides him, my intercourse is limited to Sainton, the leader of the orchestra, who caused my ill-fated appointment here, and a certain Luders, who lives with him Both are ardently devoted to me, and do all in their power to make o to Prager Quite recently a Mr
Ellerton, a rich amateur, approached me very cordially He has heardin his roolishman I have seen who does not care particularly for Mendelssohn A fine, aement of the first act of the ”Valkyrie,” which he plays beautifully Unfortunately I have lostvery little, so that I am afraid I shall not be able to be of much service to you in that way
You will have to do all the work next Septereat debt, you reticentin the future as pure happiness, it is h yourratulate you on your mass from the bottom of my heart Let us hope that you will derive much pleasure from it at Gran
And how is the Princess? Joyful and sorrowful? Does she still preserve her bright enthusiasm? And Beatrice--I mean the Child?
Greet her for me a thousand times
Farewell, dearest, ht of you is an ever-new delight to my heart Be thanked for your love!
Farewell
Your
R W
LONDON, May 16th, 1855
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22, PORTLAND TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK, LONDON,
May 26th, 1855
Once more, dearest Franz, I must make a complaint about the ”Faust” overture The Hartels have sent ement for four hands, of which I cannot possibly approve
Did not you tell the, would best be able to ement?
Klindworth also would be prepared for it In any case it should be a pianist of that type The actual arrangeh anotes in this arrangement have drawn my attention to the fact that very probably there are many errors in the score as well You will remember that it was a copy which I sent to you for your own use, asking you to correct such errors as ht occur in your mind, or else to have them corrected, because it would be tedious for ently requested the Hartels, if they printed the score, to send me a proof You are in frequent communication with the Hartels, and the edition of this overture is really your doing Be not angry therefore if I ask you to set the ht when convenient For heaven's sake, forgiveyou with this trifle The day after tomorrow I have my sixth concert, and a month afterwards I start for horeetings
Your R W
189 DEAREST RICHARD,
I returned here yesterday from the Dusseldorf Musical Festival, tired and dull Hiller, who conducted the whole, had invitedfor once, to hear ”Paradise and the Peri,” and to applaud Jenny Lind I need not tell YOU anything about it, and I ah the whole festivalwhich, indeed, could not have been expected from it In the art world there are very different kinds of laurels and thistles, but you need care very little about such ”The eagle flies to the sun”
Then you are reading Dante? He is excellent company for you I, on my part, shall furnish a kind of co time I had in my head a Dante symphony, and in the course of this year it is to be finished There are to be three movements, hell, PURGATORY, and PARADISE, the two first purely instrumental, the last with chorus When I visit you in autu it with me; and if you do not dislike it, you must allow me to inscribe it with your naement for four hands of the Faust overture has already been made, I do not advise you to propose so that can be done with the four-hand arrangement is to ask Klindworth to make some corrections in accordance with your instructions, and to have so Klindworth's nae Another ti to send in the four-hand arrangeether with the score, and to come to terms with the publisher about it
The attitude of the Hartels towards us is naturally always a little reserved I, for my part, cannot complain of theentlemanly s, because their intimate friends are decidedly adverse to us; and for the present we shall not be able to arrive at h this may sometimes be inconvenient, I think it best to let it continue
I am surprised that you found so st other advantages which they possess as publishers, one is bound in justice to admit that the Hartels have excellent readers (Dorffel, Schellenberg, etc)