Volume I Part 31 (1/2)
Meanwhile your ”Chasseurs de Siberie” will be given again on Wednesday next (the 22nd) I will tell Cornelius to give you tidings of it, unless the fancy takes you to come and hear it, in order to make a diversion fro
Write to me soon, my dear Van II, and believe me wholly your very affectionate and devoted friend,
F Liszt
November 19th, 1854
127 To Dr Franz Brendel
Dear Friend,
Kahnt [The subsequent publisher, for many years, of the Neue Zeitschrift] is only known to me by name, as an active and not too moderately Philistine publisher Personally I have never ive a decided opinion as to his fitness and suitability for the post of publisher of the Neue Zeitschrift--yet, on the grounds you giveis to be expected fro at Gotha, which can only come to pass in the course of the next antic plans for his new establishht be left soree with you on this point, that you cannot put the Neue Zeitschrift in the market and offer it to just any publisher who has shown hi as that could never lead to a satisfactory result I would, however, remark that the next few years will probably set our party s; the invalidity of our opponents vouches pretty surely for that, apart from the fact, which is nevertheless the principal point, that powerful talent is developing in our midst, andnear to us and agreeing with us
Consequently it seems to me that it is not to your interest to conclude at once a contract for too many years with Kahnt, unless, which is scarcely likely, he were to make you such an offer that you would be satisfied with it under the most favorable conditions If Kahnt shows the necessary perception and will for the et him to have a consultation with me about it at Weymar As he is also a s, and make others plainer, which would not be without interest to him He need not be afraid that I shall belabor hie him to untimely or useless sacrifices(I need not waste more words over the purity of my intentions!) But I think it is desirable that, if Kahnt consents to becouard about several things beforehand which do not come exactly within the sphere of your activity, but whichA couple of hours will be a the co weeks Kahnt will find ed for you to come to Weymar with him for a day, and then we three can h it is very difficult to s, yet I am quite at your service with a short article for the trial-nued the article so as to do for the New Year's number--you shall have it in four to five days Dispose of it as suits you best In case the ”Clara Schumann” article does not appear in the next nu for the trial-number, it would be well perhaps to put it in there
Possibly it lad that you, dear friend, after soain with the pseudo-Musician of the Future, Rubinstein He is a clever fellow, possessed of talent and character in an exceptional degree, and therefore no one can be more just to him than I have been for years Still I do not want to preach to him--he may sow his wild oats and fish deeper in the Mendelssohn waters, and even say if he likes But sooner or later I aive up the apparent and the foranically Real, if he does not want to stand still Give his; as soon as our concert affairs are settled here I shall write and invite hiive one of his orchestral works here
Do not let yourself be grieved at the ever-widening schis to lose by it; we hts in order to attain them That is the task, which will not be accomplished in a day nor in a year Indeed, it is as it is written in the Gospel, ”The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few!” Therefore we are not to ain to remain firm--the rest will come of itself!--
I will do , who for years went every Sunday to Weimar to study with Liszt; died 1860] that shejourney It is a splendid and plucky deterularly to Weyain thereby 's proposal of a Tonkunstler-Versa to me; the same ritten to me from several other sides Hitherto I have always abstained froht it was more prudent not to sell the bear's skin before the bear is shot Moreover the ordinary fine talk without deeds [”much cry and little wool”] is very distasteful to me: let friend Kuhmstedt [Professor at a school, and Music Director at Eisenach; died 1858] sing that kind of philosophical fiortures in Eisenach; I have no talent for it
None the less we can return to the Nauenburg proposition at a convenient opportunity, and see how it could be best carried out
According towould be the ood time for it
I consider Raff's poleet a lesson in history frorateful to you--and we need not be anxious about Pohl It will not puzzle him to eat his way out suitably and wittily
Yours ever,
F Liszt December 1st, 1854
128 To JW von Wasielewski in Bonn
[Formerly Conductor of the Town Vocal-Union at Bonn (born 1822), afterwards at Dresden; then again in Bonn as Music Director, and living since 1884 in Sondershausen Widely known as a literary raphies of Schuh his book ”The Violin and its Masters,” etc]
Dear Friend,
Owing to the so detour of the ”Pesther Lloyd,” in which the friendly lines of remembrance have been reprinted which you dedicated to the ”Altenburg” in the Cologne paper, I only heard of these a few days ago [Written on the occasion of a week's visit to Liszt at the Altenburg at Weiuest] Please therefore to excuse the delay in my thanks, which are none the less sincere and heartfelt
I have heard many accounts of your most successful concert perfor you due praise for your excellent conducting At the beginning of January concert affairs here, which have hitherto been in a vacillating and fluctuating condition, owing to various local circumstances, will take a ras and Sayings” froed for four voices by W Stade (of Jena) It is an interesting work, and the editors would be very ive a couple of numbers of them at your concerts The little pieces make quite a pretty effect, and one peculiar to themselves, which will prove still more intense with the beautiful Rhine Voices Perhaps you would also find time and inclination to make the public favorably disposed towards the work by a few lines in the Cologne paper
How is Hiller? Has his ”Advocate” [an opera, ”The Advocate” It had no success, and was publicly ridiculed at the Cologne Carnival] won his requisite suit, as I wish from my heart may be the case? It would be very kind of you to let me know your plain, unvarnished opinion of the performance I should like to recommend an early perforainst it As you frequently have occasion to see Hiller I beg you to ask hireeable to him to send me the text-book and the score, so that I ive the opera here very soon-- Should the ed that he hilad indeed, and I rite to him more fully about it