Opponents which will infallibly follow!); and if a few singers
could be found, not of the raw and superficial kind, who would
boldly venture to sing songs by the notorious non-composer, Franz
Liszt, they would probably find a public for them.
I think I told you that a couple of them made a furore in certain
salons which are very much set against me, as posthumous songs of
Schubert, and were encored! - Of course I have begged the singer
to carry the joke on further.
Klemm need not therefore be in the least ashamed of undertaking
the publication of the work in a friendly spirit.
Best thanks beforehand for your kind trouble in this matter - and
ever faithfully yours,
F. Liszt
Weymar, December 6th, 1859
P.S. - I have just received your letter. The two K.'s - Kompel and
Kahnt - shall be made most welcome. Pohl had already told me of
Kahnt's coming; it will be a pleasure to me not to verlangweilen
[To make the time hang heavily] his visit here (if that word is
not quite German, still I consider it is comprehensible!). Julius
Schuberth had also the intention of rescuing something [Namely,
Liszt's composition] from Kuehn.
