Volume II Part 67 (2/2)

303 To Kornel von Abranyi

Bayreuth, July 23rd, 1882

Dear honored Friend,

By the sayarok istene” for the Musical Festival at Debreczin-- I beg the directors carefully to try over the small instrumentation before the full rehearsal, with the instruments (plus the brilliant cymbals), without the vocal parts

The solo trunate, in a noble h it were a trade

I also beg that the directors will be so good as to correct any chance mistakes there may be in h I trouble myself but little about the spread of my compositions, yet I do not wish them to be offered to the public in a mutilated form As I flatter myself that I possess a sufficient portion of self-criticism, other criticism remains only valuable and instructive to me

Your son Kornel is heartily welcoh [Forarian Academy of Music] the ministerial affairs of your ”academic, historical manual” The matter will assuredly be settled to your satisfaction

Yours ner's ”Parsifal” far surpasses the master-works which the theater boasts up to the present time May the public be educated up to it

304 To Freiherr Hans von Wolzogen

My dear Freiherr,

Both at and after yesterday's perforner's ”Parsifal”

it was the universal feeling that about this wonder-work it is impossible to speak

It has indeed struck dumb those ere so deeply is from the sublime to the sublimest

Yours ever,

F Liszt

Bayreuth, July 27th, 1882

305 To Madame Malwine Tardieu

Weimar, September 12th, 1882