Volume I Part 60 (1/2)

Have I ever told you how excellent the latter, which you had chosen just right, tasted?

It is almost iht to let his drama be examined by a ”competent authority” Undoubtedly; but that will not help hi as this coelstedt, is not able to help him any further As far as I know our Intendant he will NOT condescend to perforelstedt about it, and will prevail on him first of all to write a few lines to B, as the rules of courtesy delad as I should be if it happened so, for you know that I a It is doubtful also whether B will have much better chances with other Intendants-- for, as it seeood man has decidedly bad luck Please make my excuses to him if I do not answer his letter other than by a silent condolence (in Ger!)--It has beco on the boards--”which signify the world”--especially for writers of classic tragic-plays, whose lot is far s certainly are not enre is thedose of obstinacy and resignation there is no doing anything In spite of the coehen viele in den Stall,” [The English equivalent seeh”] there is for the greater number and most patient of the sheep noof food!--Thus the problem of the literary and artistic proletariat becomes from year to year more clamorous

Your orchestral concert plan has surprised me very much, and I thank you frooodwill Yet for this year I think it would be more judicious to pause, for several reasons which it would lead me rather too far to explain, and which, therefore, I prefer to reserve for a viva voce talk They relate to (A)connected with it socially; (B) the position ofartists and in the Press, which not only influence but intimidate the public, disconcert it, and palm off upon it ears, hich it cannot hear This tes I think I have, alas! at all tireatly mistake, it must surely soon perceptibly modify in our favor Our opponents ”triumph far more than they conquer us,” as Tacitus says They will not be able to hold their narrow, ainst our quiet, assured, positive progress in Art-works A consoling and significant syer able to support their adherents a composers, but devour them critically while the public is so indifferent The resume of the whole criticis words: ”All the heroes of Art in past times find, alas! no worthy successors in our day” But our tihtful successors will prove themselves such!

More of this e have an opportunity You have doubtless heard that a si My friend Bronsart undertakes the direction of the Euterpe concerts for this winter, and there will be some rows about it We will await the result; if it should not be satisfactory, yet the reat harards Vienna I think it would be wisest to let this winter pass by without troubling ourselves about it Messrs B, VB, and their associates may peacefully have Symphonies and other works performed there and mutually blow each other's trumpets

I have still a request to make to you today, dearest Eduard

Persuade Herbeck to send the score and the chorus and orchestral part of my ”Pro The work is fixed for performance at one of the Euterpe concerts, which will take place before Christmas of this year; so it is necessary that the choruses should be studied in time Kahnt has already written to Herbeck and also to Spina-- but as yet he has received neither an answer nor the parts and score of Prometheus that he wants

Take the sa Herbeck that I should like once to hear the four Schubert Marches which I instru hiive me that I always trouble you with all sorts of commissions--but my Vienna acquaintances are so lazy and unreliable that I have no other alternative but to set you on everywhere--

Heartfelt greetings to your wife and children frorateful

F Liszt

PS--I have written so to Cornelius about my latest compositions, which he will tell you

I expect the Princess here in October only I will tell you, later on, reeable

243 To Hoffman von Fallersleben

My dear, honored Friend,

The s were reported to(in the New Weymar Verein) [Hoffmann, after he had obtained in May, 1860 the position of librarian to the Duke of Ratibor at Schloss Corvey, near Hoxter-on-the-Weser, lost his wife] It came upon us all with a most mournful shock, and truly it needs no further words to assure you ofthought of ood wife, has not yet returned from Rome--and I do not expect her till towards the end of November Unfortunately I must remain here entirely until then--otherwise I should assuredly coive me, therefore, that only from afar can I tell you how sincerely and truly I remain your faithfully attached friend,

F Liszt

October 30th, 1860

I have sent your charift for October 22nd (text and music) to the Princess

244 To Professor Franz Gotze in Leipzig

Dear, honored Friend,

Do not thinkto you about which you yourself hter are as rare as they are pronounced I have heard her sing and declaim several ti interest Will you not give her carte blanche, and grant your consent to the artistic career which is hers by nature and which can hardly be put aside? [Liszt, like others, was laboring under the mistake (for reasons which cannot be discussed here) that Gotze did not intend his daughter to pursue the career of an artiste, though he had had her educated both as a singer and dramatically] I know that this may not be a very easy decision for you,--but,advice of this kind, yet I cannot do otherwise than make an exception in this case, and intercede with you to let your daughter coret having supported her with fatherly coain your daughter for the next concert in Jena I think that a debut there would in any case do her no haruste shortly to appear here at a Court concert

Excuse my interference in so delicate a hter, and the faithful friendshi+p hich I remain Your unalterably sincerely attached