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Letters of Franz Liszt: From Rome to the End
Letters of Franz Liszt From Rome to the End Author:Franz Liszt, La Mara, Constance Bache Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that for three months past I have hardly sent as many as three to four letters to Germany. Remember me most particularly to Herr Rcgier- ungsrath Miiller.1 ... more » 3. To Dr. Franz Brendel. D-ear Friend, Your friendly letter has again brought me a whiff of German air, which is all the more welcome to me here as I have not too much of it. One sees extremely few German papers in Rome—also I read them very irregularly—and my correspondents from Germany are limited to two, of whom friend Gottschalg, my legendary Tieffurt Cantor, is the most zealous. His letters flow from his heart—and are therefore always welcome to me. For all of good news that you tell me I give you twofold thanks. Firstly, because you have for the most part brought it about, prefaced it, and seen it through. And then, because you tell it me in so friendly a fashion. Although I have long been prepared to bear the f1asco of my works quietly and unmoved, yet still it is pleasant to me to learn that the Faust Symphony in Leipzig did not have such a very bad fate.2 Do not fail, dear friend, to give Herr Schnorr my best thanks—and if perchance my songs would be a little pleasure to him will Kahnt 1 A friend of Liszt's, a multifarious writer on music; died 1876. Autograph in the possession of Herr Alexander Meyer Cohn in Berlin. 5 In one of the "Euterpe" concerts, under Bronsart's conducting, at which Schnorr of Carolsfeld sang the tenor solo. be so good as to send Schnorr a copy (bound) at my order ? With regard to the Bronsart affair, I sincerely regret that I had not the opportunity of smoothing matters do%vn sooner. Between people of one mind dissension and variance should never appear—much less lead to an outbreak. As you ask me for my opinion, I openly confess that in the main Bronsart appears ...« less