A Little Trip To Gotha, Where The Duke Had Invited Me To Be
Present At The Performance Of His Opera
"Casilda" the day before
yesterday, must bear the blame of my delay in writing to you.
After duly thinking over
And considering your letter, I must tell
you first and foremost my exact opinion with regard to the
immediate appearance of the proposed paper. In my opinion at
least two or three months are requisite to establish the
necessary relations with the chief co-operators, and to give due
weight to the whole undertaking. Without complete agreement as to
means and aims we should compromise rather than help the matter.
We must have the positive agreement and assurance of Semper,
Stahr, Hettner, Hauenschild, and others (among whom Vischer of
Tübingen must be sure not to be forgotten), before the first
number appears. We have to struggle for a far higher and more
difficult end than, for instance, the Unterhallungen am
hausliehen Herd [Entertainments at Home] or the Fliegende Blatter
fur Musik. [Fly-leaves for Music.] The most important step for us
is the very first, at the house door; and if we do not weigh this
step with due reflection we shall run a great risk of winning
only imaginary future subscribers for the Art Work of the Future,
and of seeing our best wishes for its feasibility shipwrecked.
Whether also the title Kunstwerk der Zukunft [Art Work of the
Future.] should be employed, or what other definition should
be the axis of our united efforts in the opening number, I will
put on one side for the present.
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