Volume I Part 4 (2/2)

18 To Princess Christine Belgiojoso in Paris

[Autograph in the possession of M Alfred Bovet at Valentigney-- Addressed to the celebrated writer and patriot In 1837 a charity concert took place in her salons, at which Liszt and Thalberg both played]

It would be self-conceit in me, Princess, to complain of your silence Your letters have always been forto say that I have the slightest right to them

Nevertheless, as you do not reply to me any more, I hope you will at least perhtest marks of your kindness, and what a price I set upon your remembrance

Some numbers of the Gazette or Revue Musicale, which have accidentally fallen into my hands at the house of one of my Russian friends (for in this happy country of the Arts, and of ine that no one is foolish enough to spend a thirty francs' subscription on the Revue Musicale), have informed me that you had decidedly raised altar for altar, and nificent harret of my winter I should so immensely have liked to be there to admire you, to applaud you Several people who had the honor of being present at these choice evenings have spoken to me about them with enthusiasm

What a contrast to the tiresoive to this invention of ratify the Ro to Paris, so unbounded does ine that, wearied arfare, not being able to coraive a series of concerts all bycavalierly to the public, ”The concert is--rammes of the soliloquies for you:--

1 Overture to William Tell, performed by M L

2 Reminiscences of the Puritani Fantaisie composed and performents by the saiven--still by the same And that was all; neitherthe intervals, and enthusiasm if there was rooht at least to talk to you of St

Peter's That is the proper thing to do when one writes fro to you from Albano, whence I can only discern the dome, and, secondly, this poor St

Peter's has been so disguised, so embellished by papier-mache wreaths, horrid curtains at alcoves, etc, etc, all in honor of the five or six last saints whom His Holiness has canonised, that I try to put away the recollection of it Happily there have not been any workers of lorify at the Coliseum and the Campo Vaccino, otherwise it would have been i occurs to prevent it, I expect to pass the end of next winter (March and April) in Paris Will you peraps in my correspondence from the Rue d'Anjou?

[Here the Princess lived] I count always upon your friendly and indulgent kindness But shall you extend this so far as to give n of life before the close of my stay in Italy? I do not know In any case, letters addressed poste restante, Florence, will reachyou, Madame la Princesse, to accept the expression of my profound and most devoted respect

F Liszt

Albano, June 4th, 1839

Will you be good enough to remember on?

19 To Robert Schumann

[From a copy from the Royal Library in Berlin]

Albano, June 5th, 1839

My dear Monsieur Schu very ain tell you that the last pieces you were so kind as to send me to Rome appear to me admirable both in inspiration and composition The ”Fantaisie” dedicated to hest kind--and I a to rand a composition

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