The Articles In The Austrian
P[Aper], And Your Brochure, Have Done The Most Towards Stirring
Up The General Wish.
The public is like this - that they only know
what they ought to think of a work when they see it printed in
black and white!
- You have therefore to answer for it if the Mass
is performed here a second time - on Friday afternoon in the
Museum-Saal (for the benefit of the Conservatorium) and on Sunday
in the Parish Church. On Monday evening I shall be in Vienna. I
wrote to Tausig yesterday that we would decide on the evening of
our musical meeting at your house after Countess Banffy has
chosen on the evening for her soiree (at which Tausig will play).
If I hear anything further about it Tausig shall let you know at
once, so that you may be able to make your invitations in
advance. On Thursday or on Saturday at latest I leave Vienna. All
further particulars viva voce.
Yours ever,
F. Liszt
There is no truth in the idea of a private concert. I will tell
you in what way I might be able to realize it another time - and
will take counsel and consent about it from you.
202. To Eduard Liszt
Dearest Eduard,
It is not enough that I have already been in all sorts of trouble
here in connection with the two performances of the Gran Mass,
which will take place next Friday and Sunday (for which four to
five rehearsals at the least are indispensable) - but now the post
from Vienna brings me bad tidings, for which indeed I was
prepared, but which, nevertheless, are by no means desired by me.
I had a long letter yesterday from our friend Z., which I am
answering with a decided refusal as regards a nearly impending
performance of my Symphonic Poems in Vienna.
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