I Learn Today By Chance Of The Measures Which Have Been Taken A
Posteriori Against The Concert Conducted And Arranged By Herr
Gotze [Carl Gotze, Chorister, Afterwards Music-Director.] And
Sincerely Regret That A Weimar Music-Director And Weymar Court
Musician Could Deem Such A Thing Suitable.
I, with my exceptional and only occasional dealings with the
orchestra here, can only draw your attention to the fact of how
deplorably such occurrences run counter to a nice feeling of
decorum, and still more to the nobler artist feeling.
With compliments,
F. Liszt
April 17th, 1859
213. To Peter Cornelius In Vienna Weymar
May 23rd, 1859
Dearest Friend,
I learn with joy from your letter (which has just crossed mine
from Lowenberg), that things are going well and comfortably with
you in Vienna. It is easy to see that your stay there, when once
you have made a firm footing, will become very advantageous - and
whatever I can do towards helping this you may be sure I shall
do. Herewith a few lines for Herr von Villers, Secretary of the
Saxon Embassy (where you will learn his address). He is one of my
older friends who has remained very dear to me. In his refined
poetic and musical feeling many kindred tones will sound for you.
Tell him all about Weymar and play him something from the
"Barbier". [Cornelius' Opera] Although he lives somewhat a part,
he can prove himself agreeable to you in many things, - firstly,
by his own personal intercourse - and then also by his relations
with Baron Stockhausen (the Hanoverian Ambassador), at whose
house there is frequently really good music, etc.
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