For, However Others May
Judge Of The Things, They Are For Me The Necessary Developments
Of My Inner Experiences, Which
Have brought me to the conviction
that invention and feeling are not so entirely evil in Art.
Certainly you very
Rightly observe that the forms (which are too
often changed by quite respectable people into formulas) "First
Subject, Middle Subject, After Subject, etc., may very much grow
into a habit, because they must be so thoroughly natural,
primitive, and very easily intelligible." Without making the
slightest objection to this opinion, I only beg for permission to
be allowed to decide upon the forms by the contents, and even
should this permission be withheld from me from the side of the
most commendable criticism, I shall none the less go on in my own
modest way quite cheerfully. After all, in the end it comes
principally to this - WHAT the ideas are, and HOW they are carried
out and worked up - and that leads us always back to the FEELING
and INVENTION, if we would not scramble and struggle in the rut
of a mere trade.
When is your Method of teaching coming out? I rejoice beforehand
at all the incitement and forcible matter contained in it. You
will shortly receive a circular with a letter from E. Hallberger
(Stuttgart), who asks me to undertake the choice of pieces to
appear in his edition of the "Pianoforte." Do send something soon
to it; it is to be hoped that the establishing and spreading of
this collection will prove quite satisfactory.
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