You, Dear Friend,
Have, Through Your Singing, Often Led Me To This In The Best Way,
Without Thinking Of It.
Moreover it always does me so much good
when we meet in unity in the same path.
-
Owing to a heap of visits (among which were several of deep
interest, such as Kaulbach, Varnhagen, Carus, etc.), I have been
much interrupted in the completion of the "Elizabeth." Still, I
hope to be ready with it by February. You will then again do the
best part for it, and must practice works of artistic mercy! -
What is the good of anything that is written on paper, if it is
not comprehended by the soul and imparted in a living manner? -
But among the works of mercy I am not desirous that you should
have to bury a still-born Oratorio! -
My heartfelt, twofold greetings to Milde, as friend and as
artist. I am writing the part of Landgrave Ludwig for him - and,
as the Landgrave is very speedily got out of the way, I will ask
him to undertake, in addition, two other parts (those of a
Hungarian magnate and a bishop).
The day after tomorrow I accompany the Princess to the mountains
and cascades of the Tyrol. On our return journey we shall spend a
couple of days in Munich, and shall be back here by the end of
September. Will you allow me to conduct "Alceste" on the 2nd of
October? - Sobolewski's "Comala" [Opera by Sobolewski.] is fixed
for the 12th.
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