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Should The Matter Be Then So Arranged That He Himself Conducts
The First Performance I Should Be Very Glad Indeed, And I Will
Write To Him More Fully About It.
The opera Repertoire here will be rather at a stand-still this
winter.
Frau von Milde is in an interesting condition:
consequently there can be no Wagner operas from three to four
months; for Frau von Milde is for us, and for these operas in
particular, not to be replaced. Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini"
must also be left unperformed; all the more because Beck, the
tenor, has entirely lost his upper notes, and is less able than
ever to sing the part of Cellini. But Berlioz will come here in
January to conduct his oratorio "L'Enfance du Christ," etc.
(German translation by Cornelius), and his "Faust." I on my side
have also finished my "Faust Symphony" (in three parts - without
text or voice). The entity or non-entity has become very long,
and I shall in any case have the nine "Symphonic Poems" printed
and performed first, before I set "Faust" going, which may not be
for another year. Rubinstein's "Ocean Symphony" is to figure in
one of our next programmes. If it were not the rule to keep these
concerts exclusively instrumental, I should have begged Hiller
for his "Loreley." Probably a good opportunity will occur for
giving this work when he himself comes to Weymar, as he promised
me he would do.
Joachim sent me, together with his Hamlet Overture, which is in
print, two others - to "Demetrius" (by Hermann Grimm), and to
"Henry IV." (of Shakespeare) - two remarkable scores composed with
lion's claws and lion's jaws!
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