Volume I Part 63 (1/2)
Kahnt can publish the arrangement of the Reapers' Chorus sooner or later, as he likes The date of the Tonkunstler-Versaust I think it would be advisable for you to come soon to Wey with Dingelstedt, M[usic]
D[irector] Montag, and so those who are principally concerned in the matter
I would propose to you Dr Gille, in Jena, as a lawyer, and a zealous co-operator in this affair He is very ready to help, and reliable--
Are you really thinking of still giving the ”Pro? It certainly would not be incompatible with the ”Faust” Symphony (which I wish for in any case)--but I fear that it will bring in its train too much vexation and annoyance
We will speak further about this
Weissheiraht to conduct Beethoven's Mass
With heartfelt greetings, your
FL
Weymar March 4th, 1861
PS--Advise Schuberth once s by Lassen immediately--as he promised me
254 To Peter Cornelius in Vienna
Your letters, dearest friend, are ever a joy to my heart, as also this tih on that day I felt the absence of the Princess thewas forattachment of a few friends touched and filled me with comfort Remain ever toin God!--
Unfortunately I have been able to do but very little work this winter Revisions and proof-correcting took up almost my whole time The two last Symphonic Poems, ”Hamlet” and the ”Hunnenschlacht,” will coether with a dozen Quartets forBy the end of July the choruses to ”Prometheus”
and the ”Faust” Symphony will also be out If we should not see each other sooner, I count on you, for certain, to be here for the Tonkunstler-Versaive you, dearest Cornelius, a special invitation I hope that Eduard, [Liszt's cousin] Tausig, Porges, Laurencin, [Count Laurencin, a writer on music in Vienna] Kulke, Doppler, [Franz Doppler (1821-83), a flute virtuoso; ed with Liszt soarian Rhapsodies” for orchestra] are coive them a preliminary intimation of ive the programme--with the exception of the third day, which cannot be fixed until later
Perhaps you will give us a fragment of your ”Cid” In any case I wish your na else ready, a couple of nuiven The char of the second act would be the best
I ahted to think that you have been entirely absorbed for a tien”
Wagner has decidedly attained his zenith! I hope you have received the pianoforte arrangeold” which Schott has published If not I will send it you You reat service by a discussion of this wonderful work Allow me to stir you up to do this The su hours; realize soold” The task for you is neither a difficult nor a thankless one; as soon as you have seized upon the principal subjects representing the various personages, and their application and restate with Peter Cornelius,--
”O lust aluhen die Lande; Es lachen die Haine, Die Felsengesteine Ienden Rheine!”
[Free translation,--
”O joy of the Rhine And its hoht sunshi+ne Gilds the landscape o'er; Where the woods are greenest, The skies serenest, In that home of mine By the friendly shore Of the billowy Rhine!”]
On the 30th of thisto Paris for a couple of weeks--and towards the end of May I shall o through the whey-cure Thank God, she is again on the road to recovery! You can irief took possession offrom a sis fro a very beneficial effect on her nerves, and she feels herself, in that respect, far more at home than in Germany
She writes wonders to me about the last cartoons of Cornelius, [The celebrated painter was the uncle of the addressee] and her personal relations with the great master have proved most friendly