Volume I Part 62 (1/2)
Yours very gratefully,
F Liszt
Deceoing to Paris or a couple of weeks to see my mother (who is still constantly ill)
251 To Dr Franz Brendel
[Beginning of January, 1861]
Dear Friend,
A thousand thanks for your letter, and stillwith rand Court-concert--on the top of which there was a banquet at the Erbprinz, which lasted till four o'clock in the ; on the other days perpetual dinners and suppers, at which I was also obliged to be present Besides all this, the final revision of my second concerto (and a couple of smaller piano pieces) occupied me much Schott had undertaken the publication of the the somewhat numerous alterations which had to be made in them wait to be corrected until the proofs were printed, etc, etc
From all the transitions and connection of theout in the Concerto), I pass at once without transition to the answering of your questions
1 I think Bronsart's engagement for next year at four hundred thalers is advisable
2 If Weissheimer has really made hiht of, as a colleague of Bronsart There is no hurry about this affair, and ill talk over it again viva voce
3 The re four hundred thalers for X I will send you at the end of this month If you should require them sooner write me a couple of lines
4 The question of leave of absence is not easy to decide, so long as no definite date is fixed for the concert Frau Pohl, for instance, had had leave once already--but then the date of the concert was altered, and in consequence of her absence it was of no use For the rest I don't doubt that Frau Pohl can get leave of absence onceyou to let elstedt of it
5 With regard to the co-operation of Messrs v Milde and Singer, it has its difficulties They are both not without scruples in regard to the Euterpe, which, though they do not say so in so ht be summed up as follows: ”If we co- operate in the Euterpe, we shut the golden doors of the Gewandhaus in our faces, and injure ourselves also in other towns, in which the rule of the Gewandhaus prevails Ergo, it is more desirable, prudent(!), for us to act” The rest you can add for yourself Milde coers Fluch,” [”The Singer's Curse,” by Schureeables in connection with obtaining leave, etc Singer does not knohat piece to choose, and also the E string of his violin is not quite safe, and more of that kind
6 Fraulein Genast is in a still worse position, for she is not quite independent of the intirounds) of her father, and is, ed for the next Gewandhaus concert (for the part of the Rose in Schue”) None the less she said tothat she was perfectly ready to do whatever I thought advisable
In view of this surs on the 22nd in Zwickau, on the 24th (probably) at the Gewandhaus, and on the 31st in Aix-la-Chapelle
I have therefore advised her to co on the 23rd, and to co-operate with you by preference as a singer of Lieder (with pianoforte accompaniment) at the soiree of the Euterpe on the 29th
Yesterday evening I s for her, as the e to Kevlaar” (composed for E Genast lately by Hiller, and still inof Rubinstein's: for instance, ”Ah! could it remain so for ever!” (Tender allusion to the Gewandhaus!)
C The three Zigeuner (by s would ra of you, dear friend, not toof Hiller The plainly fair and just thing, which has nothing in coht” which is bestowed exclusively on Capell University expressed it), consists si the door to publicity in anybody's face, or ardless of the fact that we must not expect that they on their side will deal thus with us, we must consistently and faithfully carry out and fulfill this sientlemen how people of a nobler mind and more proper cultivation behave You perhaps reiven and proved by actions--especially at the Versa Hiller's (somewhat mediocre) Psalm, andetc After that I vote especially for the perforer works, such as the proposed Sy you to appoint Bronsart for it--It would lead me too far to explain my views in detail; that I have no concessions or favoritis
7 The co-operation of the violinist recommended by Schuberthto his talent
8 ”Tasso” can quite well be perfor you most earnestly not to put yourself to any inconvenience for er measure of instrumentation (Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Dresden--or, if you prefer personal naner, Berlioz); but in spite of this most of them can be perforly shown, for instance, in Sondershausen The chief thing before all else is the conductor; if he be a good and reliable ed in a variety of ways--and in ”Tasso” especially the harp is hardly wanted So don't bother yourself any more about it, and soothe Bronsart
If I am not mistaken, I think I have noered all the principal questions in your letter As to what concerns personal matters ill talk about that shortly I shall write one of these next days to Schuberth (as soon as I have finished my revisions for Schott) He has ree [The rest of the letter is ]
252 To Dr Franz Brendel