Your idea of a retrospective
Carnival seems to me excellent, and you know how to write
charming and distinguished pieces of that kind.
Farewell, dear friend; I must leave you to go and have a
rehearsal of Schumann's "Genoveva," which is to be given next
Monday. It is a work in which there is something worthy of
consideration, and which bears a strong impress of the composer's
style. Among the Operas which have been produced during the last
fifty years it is certainly the one I prefer (Wagner excepted -
that is understood), notwithstanding its want of dramatic
vitality - a want not made up for by some beautiful pieces of
music, whatever interest musicians of our kind may nevertheless
take in hearing them.
A thousand cordial greetings, and yours ever,
F. Liszt
Weymar, April 3rd, 1855
When you write to me, please add your address. I beg you will
also return my best compliments to Lewy. [Pianist in St.
Petersburg; a friend of Rubinstein's.]
A thousand affectionate messages to Van II. from the Princess.
137. To Freiherr Beaulieu-Marconnay, Intendant of the Court
theater at Weimar
[Autograph in the possession of Herr Hermann Scholtz, Kammer-
Virtuosos in Dresden.
