Volume I Part 62 (2/2)

Dear friend,

I expressly wish that Weisshei at the Euterpe soiree I have especially commissioned him to make the motive of this wish of ard to the choice of songs you will easily coer But I, for my part, hold to the opinion that Hiller's ”Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar” is well suited to the programme

The ”Faust” Symphony must be written out quite fresh once more before I send it to Schuberth By the 15th February he will receive the ether with a couple of lines for Dorffel, who is almost indispensable to me as the corrector of this work I shall be over head and ears in work the next feeeks, in order to do all that is necessary before I start on my journey to Paris, which I shall probably do on the 20th February

Best thanks for all the infors, are still going very badly--upon which we cannot and ainst these things we shall co (in the

Meanwhile hearty greetings and thanks from your

F L

January 20th, 1861

You shall have the small sum for X in the course of the week

253 To Dr Franz Brendel

Dear friend

By yesterday's post I sent you--

A The score of the second act of the ”Flying Dutchman”--and two orchestral parts of the duet (these latter in order that the copyist, in writing it out, , as it stands in the score--Weisshei Thumler to send me the score back soon, as it may possibly be wanted at Easter in the theater

B The last part (Mephistopheles and final chorus) of the ”Faust”

Syement of this saood as to give these manuscripts to Schuberth? I hope he will keep his promise and not delay the publication of the work At the end of this week I will send Schuberth the score and the four-hand piano arrange” ”The Nocturnal Procession”)--and the ”Mephisto-Waltz”) I should be glad if these two things could come out in the course of this year

C For Kahnt, the skeiten”

[”The Beatitudes”], which I also hope iven here a couple of times in the Schloss orchestra and the parish church, and, as I have been told many times, has been spoken of in an exceptionally favorable s that have so welled up from my innermost soul

I think I shall be ready with the revision of the ”Prometheus”

score by next Saturday I have already ements (for two and four hands, not two pianofortes) of the Reapers' Chorus, which I give Kahnt gratis He shall get the whole packet early next Monday at the latest Weissheimer tells me that the edition of the score shall be ready by the middle of July If Kahnt prefers to let the Proainst it; I only beg that in this case he will employ a very clever and exact copyist-and, as I have already told him, that he will preserve the size of the other Symphonic Poems

NB--The division and distribution of the score--so that there may be as few unnecessary rests as possible, and that, where it can be done (as, for instance, at the beginning of the Tritons'

Chorus, the Reapers' Chorus, etc), two sets of staves should be printed on one page--I beg that this may be entrusted to Herr Dorffel I also do not wish the work to look like a conductor's score on the outside!--and, before it is given into the hands of the engraver or copyist, it is necessary that the parts where two sets of staves coe should be clearly indicated

My copyist here has made a very careless scrawl of the ”Prometheus” score, and I have therefore taken other work out of his hands, and have given hi But there is no time to have a new score written, and therefore Dorffel ely help out with the ement must be put below the score, as it is in the manuscript