Letters of Franz Liszt, vol 2, From Rome to the End | Page 8

Eugen d'Albert. December 26th,
1885 374. Sophie Menter. December 30th, 1885 375. Eduard Reuss.
January l0th, 1886 376. Walter Bache. February 11th, 1886 377.

Countess Mercy- Argenteau. February 17th, 1886 379. Sophie Menter.
March 18th, 1886 379. Countess Mercy-Argenteau. April 14th, 1886
380. Alexander Ritter. April 24th, 1886 381. Frau Amalie von Fabry.
May 27th, 1886 382. Mme. Malwine Tardieu. May 29th, 1886 383.
Eduard Reuss. June 5th, 1886 384. Frau Reuss-Belce. June 5th, 1886
385. Eduard Reuss. June 22nd, 1886 386. Sophie Menter. July 3rd,
1886
Index of Supplemental Letters
387. Freiherr von Spiegel in Weimar. September 30th, 1841 388.
Eugenio Gomez in Sevilla. December 27th, 1844 389. Mme.? End of
December, 1844 390. Mme.? Beginning of 1845 391. Mme.? in Milan.
1846 392. Frau Charlotte Moscheles (?). June 22nd, 1848 393. Heinrich
Wilhelm Ernst. May 30th, 1801 394. Josef Dessauer (?). Beginning of
the fifties 395. Testimonial for Joachim Raff. Beginning of the fifties.
396. Dr. Eduard Hanslick in Vienna. January 31st, 1856. 397. Minister
von Bach in Vienna. September 18th 398. ? in Leipzig. Spring, 1859
399. Dr. Eduard Hanslick. September 24th, 1859

THE LETTERS OF FRANZ LISZT, VOLUME 2: FROM ROME TO
THE END

1. To Dr. Franz Brendel
[Rome,] December 20th, 1861
Dear Friend,
For the New Year I bring you nothing new; my soon ageing attachment
and friendship remain unalterably yours. Let me hope that it will be
granted to me to give you more proof of it from year to year.
Since the beginning of October I have remained without news from
Germany. How are my friends Bronsart, Draseke, Damrosch,
Weissheimer? Give them my heartiest greetings, and let me see some
notices of the onward endeavors and experiences of these my young
friends, as also of the doings of the Redactions-Hohle [Editorial den]
and the details of the Euterpe concerts.
Please send the numbers of the paper, from October onwards, to me at
the address of the library Spithover-Monaldini, Piazza di Spagna,
Rome. Address your letter "Herrn Commandeur Liszt," Via Felice 113.
"Signor Commendatore" is my title here; but don't be afraid that any

Don Juan will stab me--still less that on my return to Germany I shall
appear in your Redactions-Hohle as a guest turned to stone!--
Of myself I have really little to tell you. Although my acquaintance
here is tolerably extensive and of an attractive kind (if not exactly
musical!), I live on the whole more retired than was possible to me in
Germany. The morning hours are devoted to my work, and often a
couple of hours in the evening also. I hope to have entirely finished the
Elizabeth in three months. Until then I can undertake nothing else, as
this work completely absorbs me. Very soon I will decide whether I
come to Germany next summer or not. Possibly I shall go to Athens in
April-- without thereby forgetting the Athens of the elms! .--.
First send me the paper, that I may not run quite wild in musical
matters. At Spithover's, where I regularly read the papers, there are
only the Augsburger Allgemeine, the Berlin Stern-Zeitung [Doubtless
the Kreusseitung], and several French and English papers, which
contain as good as nothing of what I care about in the domain of music.
Julius Schuberth wrote a most friendly letter to me lately, and asks me
which of Draseke's works I could recommend to him next for
publication. To tell the truth it is very difficult for me in Rome to put
myself in any publisher's shoes, even in so genial a man's as Julius
Schuberth. In spite of this I shall gladly take an opportunity of
answering him, and shall advise him to consult with Draseke himself as
to the most advisable opportunity of publishing this or that Opus of his,
if a doubt should actually come over our Julius as to whether his
publisher's omniscience were sufficiently enlightened on the matter!--
Remember me most kindly to your wife.
Yours most sincerely,
F. Liszt
Please give my best greetings to Kahnt. Later on I shall beg him for a
copy of my songs for a very charming Roman lady.

2. To A.W. Gottschalg, Cantor and Organist in Tieffurt
["Der legendarische Cantor" [the legendary Cantor] the Master jokingly
named this faithful friend of his. "I value him as a thoroughly honest,
able, earnestly striving and meritorious comrade in Art, and interest
myself in the further progress-- which is his due," wrote Liszt to the
late Schuberth. Meanwhile Gottschalg was long ago advanced to the

post of Court organist in Weimar. He is widely known as the editor of
the "Chorgesang" [chorus singing] and of the "Urania."]
Dear Friend,
Although I cannot think otherwise than that you remain ever equally
true to me, yet the living expression of your kindly