That I Have
Put Off Replying To You Till Now Is Not Merely On Account Of My
Numerous Occupations, Which
Usually preclude my having the
pleasure of correspondence, but chiefly on account of you and
your remarkable work, which I
Wanted to read at leisure, in order
to get from it the whole substance of its contents. You cannot
find it amiss that it has given me much to reflect upon, and you
will easily understand that I shall have much to say to you on
this subject - so much that, to explain all my thoughts, I should
have to make another book to match yours - or, better still,
resume our lessons of twenty years ago, when the master learned
so much from the pupil, - discuss pieces in hand, the meaning,
value, import, of a large number of ideas, phrases, episodes,
rhythms, harmonic progressions, developments, artifices; - I
should have to have a good long talk with you, in fact, about
minims and crotchets, quavers and semi-quavers, - not forgetting
the rests which, if you please, are by no means a trifling
chapter when one professes to go in seriously for music, and for
Beethoven in particular.
The friendly remembrance that you have kept of our talks, under
the name of lessons, of the Rue Montholon, is very dear to me,
and the flattering testimony your book gives to those past hours
encourages me to invite you to continue them at Weymar, where it
would be at once so pleasant and so interesting to see you for
some weeks or months, ad libitum, so that we might mutually edify
ourselves with Beethoven.
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