As To The Summary Judgment Passed Upon My Person And My Works In
This Article, You Will Easily Understand That I Only Accept It As
Transitory And With Due Reserve, Much Obliged Though I Am Besides
To The Author For His Kind Intentions.
After having attained,
according to my biographer, the first aim of my youth, - that of
being called the Paganini
Of the Piano,-it seems to me it is
natural that I should seriously have the ambition of bearing my
own name, and that I should count somewhat on the results of a
desire and of persevering work, so far as to hope that in one of
the later editions of the Conversations Lexikon I may have a
place more in accordance with my aims. [The article in question,
which was published at a time when Liszt's greater works had
partly not yet been written, and partly were not yet known in the
wider circles, speaks of poverty of invention, and considers his
compositions rather those of a virtuoso than of imaginative
significance.]
Accept, my dear Mr. Brockhaus, the expression of my most sincere
regard, and believe me
Yours very truly,
F. Liszt
Weymar March 22nd, 1853
99. To Dr. Franz Brendel in Leipzig
[Autograph of the letter to Brendel in the possession of Frau Dr.
Riedel in Leipzig. - Brendel (born 1811, died November 25th, 1868,
in Leipzig) rendered great services to the New German (i.e., the
Wagner-Liszt) musical tendencies, as a writer on music
(Geschichte der Musik, History of Music), and as editor of the
Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (founded by R. Schumann). He also,
together with Liszt, originated the "Allgemeine Deutsche
Musikverein" (the "German Universal Musical Union"), and was its
president up to his death.]
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