F. Liszt
Will you be so good as to go to Diabelli's [Music publisher in
Vienna] when you pass by, and advise him again not to publish the
third part of the Hungarian Melodies (which I sent him by Hartel)
without first sending me a proof to Paris to correct. Adieu.
Best remembrances to Kriehuber [A well-known Vienna painter and
lithographer, from whom a number of Liszt portraits have come.]
and Lowy. Why does not the latter write to me?
26. To Maurice Schlesinger, Editor of the Gazette Musicale in
Paris
[Given by L. Ramann, "Franz Liszt," vol. ii., i.]
Sir,
Allow me to protest against an inexact assertion in your last
number but one: -
"Messieurs Liszt and Cramer have asked for the Legion of Honor,"
etc.
I do not know if M. Cramer (who has just been nominated) has
obtained the cross.
In any case I think that you, like every one else, will approve
of a nomination so perfectly legitimate.
As to myself, if it be true that my name has figured in the list
of candidates, this can only have occurred entirely without my
knowledge. It has always seemed to me that distinctions of this
sort could only be accepted, but never "asked for."
I am, sir, etc.,
F. Liszt
London, May 14th, 1840
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