I Am Writing To Schuberth By The Next Post To Tell Him (What He
Might Know Without That) How Unwillingly And How Seldom I Meddle
With Dedications - Especially Dedications To People And Societies
That I Don't At All Know, As He Would Like Me To Do!
In the
somewhat numerous works of mine that have appeared of late years
you will find very few dedications.
The twelve Symphonic Poems
have none. The Gran Mass is also without one - and in the Songs I
have left out the earlier dedications. Therefore, before I try in
America a method which I have almost given up in Europe, some
time may yet elapse. Schuberth means thoroughly well by me, for
which I am obliged to him - but he means well in his own way,
which cannot always be mine.
May I beg another little favor of you? At the Court concert on
the 1st January I should like to let the Reiter-Marsch of F.
Schubert (not Julius!), which I instrumented, be performed, and I
have no longer either the score or the parts. You would lay me
under an obligation if you could quickly send them to me. I have
never heard the piece; and as it has already been given with
success in Vienna and Leipzig I may almost venture to expect that
the company here may be bold enough to go half-way in the same
direction! -
Possibly I shall also attempt the Mephisto Waltz the same
evening, as well as a couple of my orchestrated songs.
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