The Dedication Of
Your Work "Systematic Method Of Teaching For Pianoforte Playing
And Music" (The Latter Must Not Be Forgotten!) Pleases Me Much,
And You Will Allow Me To Take A Modest Revanche [Revenge]
Shortly, In Dedicating One Of My Latest Works To You.
Probably
Schlesinger will bring out several books of my songs next winter,
in which you will perhaps find much that is in sympathy with your
ideas of the melody of speech.
Hence I wish that you would not
refuse me the pleasure of using your name in connection with
them, and of letting it precede them, as an interpretation, as it
were, of the intention of the songs. Hartel will send you in a
couple of days the first seven numbers of the arrangements for
two pianofortes of my Symphonic Poems which have already
appeared. An arrangement of that kind is not so easy to make use
of as a four-hand one. Nevertheless, after I had tried to compass
the score of Tasso plainly into one pianoforte, I soon gave up
this project for the others, on account of the unadvisable
mutilation and defacement by the working into and through one
another of the four-hand parts, and submitted to doing without
tone and color and orchestral light and shade, but at any rate
fixing an abstract rendering of the musical contents, which would
be clear to the ear, by the two-piano arrangement (which I could
arrange tolerably freely).
It is a very agreeable satisfaction to me that you, dear friend,
have found some interest in the scores.
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