When You Have An Opportunity Please Tell Her Not To
Delay Her Journey To Weymar, For I Have Made All The Arrangements
With Mr. De Beaulieu, Etc., From The 24th To The 26th, For The
Court Concert And For The One Which Will Take Place At The
Theater In Her Honor.
My "Faust" is finished, and I am going to give it to the copyist
in a couple of days.
I am very curious to make acquaintance with
yours, and to see in how far the beaux-esprits differ whilst
meeting on common ground! Your "murrendos" at Leipzig will have
proved favorable to your conversations with the Muse, and I look
forward to a fine Symphony. A revoir then, dear friend; on the
4th November, or the 5th at latest, we have the first performance
of an unpublished tragedy, "Bernhard von Weymar," for which Raff
has written a grand Overture and a March, and on the following
days your general rehearsals.
Yours in all friendship,
F. Liszt
125. To Dr. Franz Brendel
[Beginning of November, 1854]
Dear Friend,
Pohl's article on Lieder und Spruche, etc. (Songs and Sayings),
appears to me to be of general interest to the public - therefore
I begged you to put it in your paper.
Touching what you have reserved of Raff's, I am quite of opinion
that you should also make room for him in his critical
examinations of the Minnesingers. [The German poet-singers of the
Middle Ages.] The ground is an interesting and attractive one -
and if a rather warm discussion should ensue later on between
Raff and Pohl, the field of the Minnegesang (love-song) is by far
the most agreeable for both, as well as the more entertaining for
your readers.
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