I Have Engaged To Conduct The
Rehearsals, But At The Same Time Have Positively Refused To
Conduct The Performances.
Herr Musik-director Stor undertakes
that.
[After the opposition of a coterie that was inimical to
Liszt, to which, as is well known, Cornelius's "Barber of
Baghdad" fell a sacrifice, Liszt had finally resigned his post as
conductor of the theater.]
248. To the Music Publisher C.F. Kahnt
. - . With regard to the publishing of my Songs for men's voices I
do not wish in the least to hurry you, dear sir - yet I should be
glad if you could advertise the things soon - and possibly on the
back of the title-page of my songs (?), if that does not seem
impracticable to you. The two collections (the songs and the
men's songs) have a certain connection, and that is why I make
this suggestion, about which you must decide. A couple of months
ago Louis Kohler wrote to me in his witty, friendly manner, "You
really owed us some Quartets for men's voices, which Bierbruder
["Beer-drinkers," "brothers of the glass"] metamorphosed into
demi-gods!" and when the songs were published, I was already
intending to let the men's songs follow shortly after. As most of
these latter are tolerably short, I think that the score of the
twelve will not require more than forty, or at the most fifty,
plates (small size). Economy might be employed in publishing the
parts by having them well copied. Of course engraving is always
the best, but I do not want to precipitate you into a too ruinous
outlay - and if the copying is done by an experienced copyist it
looks very well, and is quite easy to read.
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