Volume II Part 24 (1/2)
In a few days a little surprise will reach you in the form of an ”Ave Maria” written for the Cherubim Society, and dedicated to the society's dear Maestra However sile repetition of a word, nor orna to you, and I beg you to play them in the form of a prayer for
Your very affectionate
F Liszt
Ro the receipt of the ”Ave Maria” tell s since Munich
Sga Nohl
[The well-knoriter on musical subjects (1831-1885)]
Dear Friend,
Let my best thanks for your letter be, to take it to heart--and to comply with it Meanwhile this much is certain--that we shall see each other in Wei there you will officiate as the worthy biographer of Beethoven
In spite of too modest a remark in your letter I ahly grasping, andothers comprehend, the question of the ”athered recently fros you have said in your brochure on Wagner; for instance, in regard to the ”refined, firm and proud position held by Music,” its ”nomy,” and ”that spirit of love which Music has created for itself”--and also, if you will allow me such presumption in contrast to your ulates the thought and gives life to the risings and fallings of the poetic idea”--
Sic vos non vobis--
Innu the Beethoven Cantata today But I have at last secured quiet: I shall remain all the winter at the Villa d'Este (3 or 4 hours out of Rome), and take care that I do not lose an immoderate amount of time
With sincerest thanks and in all friendliness yours,
Villa d'Este, November 17th, 1869
F Liszt
95 To the Princess Caroline Sayn-Wittgenstein
[According to the Weieblatt of December 6th, 1888]
November 27th, 1869
-- The death of Overbeck reently entreat and command, that my burial may take place without show, and be as siainst a burial such as Rossini's was, and even against any sort of invitation for friends and acquaintances to assemble as was done at Overbeck's interment Let there be no pomp, no music, no procession in my honor, no superfluous illuminations, or any kind of oration Let my body be buried, not in a church, but in sorave to any other I will not have any other place for my body than the ceious ceremony than a quiet Mass in the Parish Church (not any kind of Requieht be: ”Et habitabunt recti cum vultu suo”--
96 To Franz Servais
Your kind letter has given me very sincere pleasure, dear Monsieur Franz I hope your health is quite re-established, and that you are plunging into Bach to your heart's content,--that adiven myself, for a Christmas present, the little 8vo edition of Peters of the two ”Passions,” Masses and Cantatas of Bach, whonate as the St Thomas Aquinas of music Kahnt, who sends et Cornelius settled at Leipzig, in the position of editor-in-chief of the Neue Zeitschrift, founded, as you know, by Schumann, and bravely carried on by Brendel It is the sole paper which has, for thirty years past, sustained with steadfastness, knowledge and consistency the works and the ress If, as I wish, Cornelius undertakes Brendel's task, I think you would do well to follow out your project of staying again in Leipzig--In any case I hope to see you again this spring at Weimar; I shall arrive there towards thethe winter I shall abstain fro, and shall not leave my retreat at the Villa d'Este except to stay a few days in Roo to Paris; I have excusedso for reasons of expediency which you know Henceforth it is notforward, but simply to continue to write in perfect tranquillity and with a free es me to seclude myself, to avoid the salons, the half- opened pianos and the society drudgery ie tohere I very easily feel anda of the ”Missa Choralis;”
I shall be ed if you rite me a couple of words after the performance Will you also please tell M Brassin that I thank hi his success as a virtuoso by choosing my Concerto? Up to the present time all the best-known French pianists--with the exception of Saint-Saens--have not ventured to play anything ofnecessarily considered absurd and insupportable People know pretty hat to think by what they hear said, without any need of hearing the works