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In spite of the difficulties of a position embroiled with divers worries, and in spite of the scantiness of the financial ht to stick to our affirive way
As to h to take into such kind consideration, per--quiet time for work in my own room Orare et laborare The point of honor, which no one understands better than yourself, attaches ary, our country May I fulfil there all ratitude!--
I shall be back at Pest (Fischplatz) on the 10th February, and shall rejoice to hear the Ballade of our valiant friend Mihalovich, to whom I shall write tomorrow
Yours from my heart,
F Liszt
159 To Edmund von Mihalovich
Dear Excellent Friend,
I wrote the day before yesterday to Do, and was about to continue with a letter to you when a telegram called me subitissimo back to Rome The thread of my ideas has not been broken on the journey, and I resuestation--oarian Academy of Music
I trust that my very dear and honored friends will be convinced of my perfect disinterestedness in the question; the idea of an Academy is in no way mine if I become sponsor to it, it will be in self-defence and without any connivance at paternity whatever; I even refuse to help in the procreation of theandist, I hesitate over the difficulties which are opposed to its birth I have explained these many a time to my Budapest friends, and the difficulties have increased rather than di these last three years
1stly The financial situation of the country appears to be such that one et with an expenditure beyond urgent needs My patriotism is sufficiently sincere and lively to counselevery renunciation that is compatible with my strict duty
2ndly It would be a poor luxury to add a third rely) at Pest If one cannot emulate with honor the siood of troubling any further about it? Now, to give a vigorous i us, we must first unite and fuse into one spirit a set of professors of well- known capability,--a very arduous and ungrateful task, the accoence, and a sufficient amount of cleverness and of money
Other minor, local considerations complicate the matter stilt further; I pass them over in silence today, and will not repeat ious devotion to our country and our art To serve theree ofby myself at my manuscripts (which is what Iwith s, this is my simple and exclusive desire, totally removed from the personal pretensions or anxieties of vanity which are wrongly imputed to me
”Tiszta lelek, tiszta szandek, akar siker, akar nem” [”Pure soul, pure intention, whether the results be favorable or not”-- Maxim of Stephan Szechenyi]
My friends are those who haunt the Ideal; there, dear friend, we ”recognise” each other, and shall always do so,--but not ”in thepoet, too ar applause--Heine As he had predicted that the Cathedral of Cologne would never be finished ”In vain will Franz Liszt give his concerts,”
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You know that Wagner is coht that several of your compositions--especially the last, ”Sello”-- should be performed in public at that ti the ”Bells” Please beg Abranyi to hurry with the Hungarian translation of Longfellow's poeend”), and to follow, not the German translation of the ”Pianoforte score,” which I have sent to Engesser, but the original English text [Liszt had set to end,” under the title ”Die Glocken des Strassburger Munsters”--”The Bells of Strassburg Cathedral”]
Yours in cordial friendshi+p,
F Liszt
Villa d'Este, Deceracious chatelaine of Horpacs
160 To Carl Hoffbauer in Munich
[Fro Gollerich--Hoffbauer, born in 1850, beca-Verein in Munich, went to Frankfort in 1880, and put an end to his own life He cos, the Operas ”Cotzzata” and ”Demetrius”]
[End of 1874]
My hearty thanks for the kindly zeal hich you have taken up the ”Christus Oratorio” But a performance of it in Munich appears to me so doubtful, and connected with so much trouble, expense, and difficulty, that IBesides, it would not be possible for me to accept your invitation for the end of February, as several engageive a performance of the Christus in Munich, I should much like to be present As yet the whole work has been only twice heard, in Weimar and Pest (in May and last November, '73)