If Lessing Says "One
Must Not Must," Nevertheless The Saying Of Kladderadatsch, "Bien
Muss," ["The Bee Must" - Referring To A Joke In The German Punch
(Kladderadatsch).] Is, For Ordinary Mortals, Much More
Applicable - And Over This "Bee Must" One At Last Becomes Quite
Idle From Sheer Weariness.
I will take the first opportunity of sending you your manuscript
of the score of the Mass for men's voices to Vienna.
The Gloria,
which was performed at the University Jubilee Festival of Jena
last August, was made most effective by your excellent
instrumentation. You will observe a slight alteration at the
conclusion (six bars instead of five, and a slightly less risky
modulation), which I beg you to follow at any performance there
may chance to be in Vienna.
As regards the choruses to "Prometheus," I confess to you
candidly that, much as I thank you for thinking about them, I
think it is wiser to wait a little bit. I am not in the slightest
hurry to force myself on to the public, and can quietly let a
little more of the nonsense about my failure in attempts at
composition be spread abroad. Only in so far as I am able to do
something lasting may I place some modest value upon it. This can
and will be decided by time alone. But I should not wish
previously to impose on any of my friends the disagreeables which
the performance of my works, with the widespread presuppositions
and prejudices against them, brings with it.
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