Unfortunately It Did Not Appear In Print, And Up To The
Present Time No Other Theater Has Performed It, Although It Made
A Sensation In Paris And Ensured A First-Rate Position To The
Composer.
If it would interest you, dear sir, to get to know the
score, I will willingly write to Gounod and beg him to give me
the work to send to you.
I have repeatedly heard the most gratifying tidings of the
sympathy and care which you bestow in Detmold upon the works of
Wagner and Berlioz. Regardless of the many difficulties,
opposition, and misunderstandings which meet these great
creations, I cherish with you the conviction that "nothing truly
good and beautiful is lost in the stream of Time," and that the
pains taken by those who intend to preserve the higher and the
divine in Art do not remain fruitless. In the course of this
autumn (at the end of November at latest) I am going to see
Wagner, and I promise to send you from Zurich a little autograph
from his hand. I would gladly satisfy your wish sooner, but that
the letters which Wagner writes to me are a perfectly inalienable
benefit to me, and you will not take it amiss if I am more than
avaricious with them.
Accept, my dear sir, the assurance of my highest esteem, with
which I remain
Yours most truly,
F. Liszt
Weymar, September 8th, 1855
Enclosed are Berlioz' letter and the manuscript of "Sappho."
144. To Moritz Hauptmann
[The celebrated theorist and cantor of the Thomashirche in
Leipzig (1792-1868)]
Very dear Sir,
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