Besides This, I Do Consider Such A Fragmentary
Performance Of This Work Of Mine, Which Stands In Such Bad Credit
With The Critics, As Rather Unsuitable, And Would Not Advise Any
Concert-Giver, And Still Less Any Concert-Directors, To Smuggle
Into A Programme My Name So Challenged As A Composer.
How long
this curious comedy of criticism will last I am unable to
determine; anyhow I am resolved not to trouble my head about the
cry of murder which is raised against me, and to go on my way in
a consistent and undeterred fashion.
Whether I shall be
answerable for the scandal, or whether my opponents will entangle
themselves in the scandal, will appear later. Meanwhile they can
hiss and scribble as much as they please. In the course of the
summer my "Faust" and "Dante" Symphonies will be published by
Hartel, together with a couple of new Symphonic Poems. The "Faust
Symphony" is dedicated to Berlioz, and the "Dante" to Wagner. I
am sending them to you, dear friend, with the two pianoforte
arrangements, with the risk that nothing will please you in them,
which however will not prevent us from being good friends. You
may rest assured that I shall always be grateful to you for the
friendliness you have shown me in past years, and that I would
never attempt to compromise you with my future. For the latter I
alone can and must care.
Please then make my best excuses to Herr * * *, whose kind letter
has, alas!
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