Volume II Part 79 (1/2)

Really and truly when it sometimes happens that I obtain success I rejoice less over that than over the success of s of the brilliant success of Ossiana [Madame Marie Jaell, the well-known artiste, a friend of Liszt's] at Godard's concert --

You do not tell me where the little notice appeared (with ood as to send me [In the Gaulois, from the pen of Fourcaud, and, later, in the Album of the Gaulois, to which the most celebrated tone-poets had contributed a piece of music as yet unpublished] One of y--the Gran Mass--which was so unhappily performed at Paris in '66, and more unhappily criticised thenThe iven under such deplorable conditions A philanthropic reason, which is valueless inso I did not wish to deprive the fund for the poor of the assured receipts ofthis vexatious affair, whichattention which the saret the performances of Henry VIII by our very valiant friend St Saens, which were to have taken place at Weioverns even theaters Anyhow its power s to your husband from your much attached

F Liszt

On Wednesday I shall be in Rome, and back here towards the en

Dear Freiherr,

Hearty thanks for your kind letter To include h-ner and according to the wishes of his , is to me ever a duty and an honor

Faithfully yours,

F Liszt

Rome, December 18th, 1884

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Very Dear Friend and Companion in Arms,

Your sympathy for the ”Salve, Polonia” [Orchestral Interlude froiven at the Tonkunstler-Versa in Weimar in 1884, at which Saint-Saens was present]music, as I ae, ”Would that please St Saens?” The affire and other wearinesses

If you doone of my compositions at the Carlsruhe Festival please choose which it shall be: perhaps the Danse macabre [Dance of Death] with orchestra; or--which I think would be better, for the public would rather hear you alone--the Predication aux oiseaux [St Francis preaching to the birds, followed by Scherzo and March [Saint-Saens did not go to Carlsruhe]

Cordial wishes for the year '85, and ever your adly attached

F Liszt

Give my best remembrances froenteau

What wonders you have just accoe, dear admirable one! From the material point of view the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institutions have benefited by it; artistically, other deaf and dumb have heard and spoken; the blind have seen, and, on beholding you, were enraptured

I shall assuredly not cease froanda of the remarkable compositions of the New Russian School, which I esteem and appreciate with lively sympathy For 6 or 7 years past, at the Grand Annual Concerts of the Musical association (”Allgemeiner Deutscher Musik-Verein”), over which I have the honor of presiding, the orchestral works of Rira a crescendo, in spite of the sort of contuainst Russianpeculiar that leadsof justice, based on e I do not knohich ones Hans von Bulow, the Achilles of propagandists, chose for the Russian concert he gave lately with the Meiningen orchestra, of an unheard-of discipline and perfection

I hope Buloill continue concerts of the sa my disciples, brilliant virtuosi, play the most difficult piano compositions of Balakireff, etc, superbly I shall recommend to the the rarity of singers gifted at once with voice, intelligence and good taste for things not hackneyed,--there is soard to the vocal coht ti them succeed and be appreciated In France your translation of the words will be a great help, and in Germany we must be provided with a suitable translation