Volume II Part 27 (2/2)

c To venture on the performance of your ”Macbeth” sorceries and other of your co yourself i by the sorcerers of criticism

Shall you make your appearance at the composition competition next year? I invite you to do so

You know that H Richter has been appointed conductor to the National Theater of Pest, and will conduct ”Lohengrin” there at the end of September He will find, I trust, honor and satisfaction in ner, and in e and the public profit by the exemplary rules and practices of M de Bulow at Munich Needless to say that I shall endeavor to make Richter's task as easy as possible to hih Weih to explain to me his new systeures honored with commendatory letters from Mr Gevaert and several notabilities If, by ures and measures, Tysz succeeds, as you clai that Xis a ”pyralory even than the systeo to Eichstatt (Bavaria), where the (German) St

Cecilia Society meets Its founder and president F Witt--a much respected ecclesiastic, conductor of the Cathedral, composer and editor of tspapers of sacred reat capacity and a persevering zeal in endeavoring seriously to improve the uses and custoate the old works of repute as well as the new ones of this class that are deserving of reco, ”uber das Dirigiren der Kirchen of Church rievous errors and furnishes ed if you will send me a printed account of your fete of the 10th September; on that day I shall be in Rome, and shall not return thence till toward the end of October, to settle at Pest for the winter

Remember me most kindly to your brother Joseph, [The excellent Violoncellist Joseph Servais, who died in 1885 at the age of 35]

to Godebski and his wife, and believe, dear Franz, in s of devoted affection

F Liszt

Wilhelust 25th, 1871

Address Rome, Santa Francesca Romana, Campo Vaccino

What are Joseph's and your plans for the winter?

111 To Walter Bache

Dear Mr Bache,

Your kind reiven me sincere pleasure, for which I thank you cordially Please excuse s of affection for you; the hindrance of occupations and cares driveswith my best friends, but I think that is ain was a real joy to iousto ue, Berlin, etc, and will come to London in May I hope that the people there will be able to appreciate his superiority in its entirety Bulow, more than any contemporary artist, takes the lead in celebrity He is not only a very great virtuoso and n of enius of nobility of the heart, also caain at Florence in a fortnight, on my way to Pest, where, as you know, I am henceforth fixed, by royal and national favor Whether there or at Weiain next summer, dear Bache, in perfect harmony

Your very cordially affectionate and devoted

F Liszt

Rome, October 25th, 1871

Bravo and thanks for your concert progra me

112 To Marie Lipsius

Dear Patroness,

To your -- sketch of Tausig only a single objection could be raised; nah praise upon ue about it, and accept enerous kindness