The Altenburg Is Indeed Very Deserted, As Princess
Marie Went Away Directly After Her Marriage On The 15th October,
And
The Princess went to Paris yesterday for several days - yet I
will not leave my own hearth so soon, even
If my outward activity
be much limited henceforth (as I have already intimated to you)
both here and elsewhere. - I require my whole time for my further
works, which must go on incessantly - consequently I have resolved
to keep at a distance all the delights of conductorship, and to
give the baton a rest equally with the piano. -
On the 9th November the festival play by Halm, "A Hundred Years
Ago," will be given here with the music I have composed to it -
and on the 11th the "Kuenstler-Chor" is to introduce the
Festival-oration by Kuno Fischer at Jena. Damrosch writes to me
also from Berlin that he intends to include the "Kuenstler-Chor"
in the programme of the Schiller Festival there. The Zwickau
Concert is fixed for the 15th November - and I am delighted to
think of meeting the Ritters there. By the way, I am of opinion
that Sasch [Sasch, i.e., Alexander, Ritter's Christian name] will
undertake two numbers of the programme, and will fulfill
Klitzsch's wish with the "Chaconne" as well as mine with the
original Concerto, on the same evening. Zwickau chances to belong
to the few towns where the "Chaconne" (so Klitzsch writes me
word) has never been heard in public. Sasch can take this fact
into consideration, and without doing anything derogatory can
grant the public the enjoyment of the "Chaconne." The assured
success which he will have with it may also act beneficially on
the receptiveness of the audience in connection with his
Concerto.
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