Volume I Part 4 (1/2)

F Liszt

Milan, Septeive the enclosed note to the charh to remember me so kindly?

16 To M Pacini, Music Publisher in Paris

[Autograph in the possession of M Alfred Bovet at Valentigney]

My Dear Monsieur Pacini,

In two or three days at latest from now you will receive the manuscript for which you asked me for the book of the Hundred and One [A collective ith contributions by celebrities of the day] Mr Hugot has kindly undertaken to bring it to you

As the title ianini

[Bravura Studies on Paganini's Capricci, arranged for the pianoforte, brought out by Haslinger, Vienna, in 1839 A second, newly arranged edition, dedicated to Clara Schuht out by Breitkopf and Hartel in 1851] You will oblige rave it very spaciously In addition, you had better, I think, reprint directly afterwards this Etude facilitee, which I have also sent you This second arrangereat eneral public, and alsokept you waiting so long for such a s, and kind remembrances to Emilien

Yours affectionately,

F Liszt

Please send the corrected proofs of this study to Haslinger, musical editor to the Court, at Graben, Vienna

I !] leave only such mistakes as are absolutely necessary in order that an edition may be supposed to be correct

Padua, September 30th, 1838

17 To Breitkopf and Hartel

[This is the first of the Liszt letters extant in the archives of the firentleh to take about these unlucky Sy you, Mr Mori had been previously engaged to publish these Symphonies, and, as the steps you have taken have not been croith success, I will keep to this first publisher, hom I have every reason to be satisfied up to now

You can then publish this work in two or three months from now

[Pianoforte scores of the C minor and Pastoral Symphonies of Beethoven] Only it is essential that I should correct the last proof, so that the editionto several passages, to ood, therefore, as to send h the Embassy (or by any other opportunity which is not too expensive), two proofs to Rome, where I shall be in about twelve days, and where I expect to reentle advances that you have rateful to you If you will be so good as to add to the proofs of the Beethoven Sys of Beethoven (or Weber) as you would like ive you a positive answer as to that little work, which I shall be delighted to do for you, but to which I cannot assent beforehand, not knowing of which songs you are the proprietors If ”Leyer und Schwert” was published by you, I will do that with pleasure I think that these songs, or at any rate four or five of theentleh esteem

F Liszt

Florence, January 3rd, 1839