Volume II Part 37 (1/2)

Your letter was only returned to

I shall remain here, or at the Villa d'Este, till the end of January--

157 To Breitkopf and Hartel

Very dear Sirs,

The kind reception you gave the last sending of my soreatly I will always gladly do what I can to not increase the publishers'

worries, and henceforth print only what has been carefully worked out and will prove tolerably acceptable

With regard to the forner- transcriptions are to be published, you ether as you think best I did certainly think that the convenient and neat edition in small octavo would be preferable (like the last edition of Chopin and my ”Etudes transcendantes”): hence in from 5 to 6 little volus); 2 Mendelssohn (6 Songs); 3 Robert and Clara Schuner-transcriptions

This would in no way prevent the songs and pieces of several pages (such as the ”Adelaide,” Mendelssohn's Songs, the ”Tannhauser-March,” the ”Rienzi-Fantasia,” etc' being sold singly--in the sa, I always like best As long ago as the year '39 I induced Haslinger to publish Schubert's songs in an edition of this kind--and at that ti the words below the music I wish this, for the sake of the poetical delivery in all of the songs, except the ”Adelaide,”

because the poem roams about rather too freely in rococo style

Let us leave ”the flow'ret at the grave” to blooain

I ain trouble you to send reat ed as accurately and as appropriately for the piano as possible And for this I require the last proofs, in order finally to revise the them over (For the printer's consolation be it reain;sos) First of all I should like to try over Sgaement of the ”Ideale” with hi ether before I leave here (at the end of January)--

I leave thethe small honorarium confidently to your well-known kindly disposition, and remain, very dear Sirs,

Yours respectfully and most obediently,

F Liszt

Villa d'Este, November 24th, 1874

158 To Count Albert Apponyi in Budapest

[Froh draft of a letter in the possession of Herr O A Schulz, bookseller in Leipzig (The date has been ascertained from a letter to Mihalovich)--The addressee was the well-known Hungarian statesman]

[Villa d'Este, December 6th, 1874]

Dear and Very Honored Friend,

Your excellent letter of the 27th Noveive you my very sincere thanks, and to add a frank reply on the question of the Academy of Music

First of all I think the ”moyen violent” [violent means] of Huszar, which will deliver us froht; let us throw the Seeschlange [sea serpent] into the Danube, and if he wants an epitaph here is one: ”It is better to do nothing than to do stupidities”

Now, are we the stupid ones?--The Governn's decision has been obtained; I know not what official publication has followed You yourself, dear Count, have brilliantly persuaded the Chamber of Deputies that the said Acadeary; my necessary humble reserve has been taken by the public as consent--Is it possible now to take no account of such precedents, and to draw back when it is a question of advancing?

I do not think so, and I am quite of your opinion, as wise as it is opportune