There
Is Without Doubt Nothing Better Than To Respect, Admire, And
Study The Illustrious Dead; But Why Not Also Sometimes Live With
The Living?
We have tried this plan with Wagner, Berlioz,
Schumann, and some others, and it would seem that it has
Not
succeeded so badly up to now for there to be any occasion for us
to alter our minds without urgent cause, and to put ourselves at
the tail - of many other tails! -
The significance of the musical movement of which Weymar is the
real center lies precisely in this initiative, of which the
public does not generally understand much, but which none the
less acquires its part of importance in the development of
contemporary Art.
For the rest, dear Baron, I hasten to make all straight for this
evening by following your advice, and I will ask Messrs. Singer
and Cossmann to play with me Beethoven's magnificent trio (in B-
flat - dedicated to the Archduke Rudolph), as No. 3 in the
programme.
A thousand affectionate compliments, and
Yours ever,
F. Liszt
Monday, May 21st, 1855
138. To Anton Rubinstein
My dear Rubinstein,
On my return from the Musical Festival at Dusseldorf, where I
hoped to meet you, I found the parcel of oeuvres choisies and the
portrait, which is very successful, of Van II. I hasten to give
you my best thanks for this first sending, begging you not to
forget your promise to complete, in the course of their
publication, the collection of your works, which have for me
always a double interest of Art and friendship.
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