Dramatically.] I know that this may not be a very easy
decision for you, - but, much as I usually refrain from giving
advice of this kind, yet I cannot do otherwise than make an
exception in this case, and intercede with you to let your
daughter come out in public - because I am convinced that you will
not regret having supported her with fatherly compliance in this.
Dr. Gille much wishes to gain your daughter for the next concert
in Jena. I think that a debut there would in any case do her no
harm. Later on I shall ask you whether you will allow Auguste
shortly to appear here at a Court concert.
Excuse my interference in so delicate a matter by reason of the
sincere interest I take in your daughter, and the faithful
friendship with which I remain Your unalterably sincerely
attached
F. Liszt
Weymar, November 4, 1860
Send a telegram to Gille in reply - if possible, "Yes," as the
concert takes place next Sunday.
245. To Dr. Franz Brendel
Dear Friend,
. - . I take a sincere interest in the progress of the Euterpe
concerts - a progress which up to now has been favorable on the
whole; you have the chief merit in this, just because it rests
with you to neutralize difficult and opposing elements.
I rejoice much that Bronsart so thoroughly fulfills my
expectations. He is a director-gentleman ["Gentleman" put in
English by Liszt]. I shall hear more about the concerts through
Weissheimer [A composer; was for some time second director of the
Euterpe concerts], who is advertised here for the day after
tomorrow; until now I have only heard something about them from
Fraulein Hundt [A composer, at that time in Weimar; has since
died] yesterday.
With best greetings, yours in all friendship,
F. Liszt
Weymar, November 16th, 1860
Will you be so kind as to send me at once a couple of copies of
Muller's new brochure?
. - . If it is possible to hurry the bringing out of my seventh
book of songs I shall be glad. Also the "Vereins-Lied."
Give my most friendly greetings to Gotze - and at the same time
tell him that his daughter (of whose great artistic powers there
is no doubt) sang and declaimed last Sunday in Jena with the
greatest success. The vocal numbers were "two songs by Schumann,"
one of which was encored - and at the end of the concert she
declaimed the Ballade Leonore (with my melodramatic pianoforte
accompaniment).
Have you heard anything of Wagner? Rienzi is being studied here,
and I have undertaken to conduct the rehearsals. With regard to
the performance I have at once mentioned decidedly that nothing
will induce me to make an exception and conduct it - consequently
Musik-director Stor will conduct it.
