"What One Promises, The Other Surely Performs." And Beethoven Was
Quite Right To Assert His Right To Allow That Which Was Forbidden
By Kirnberger, Marpurg, Albrechtsberger, Etc.!
- Science must only
investigate more and more the nature of things and the freedom of
genius, and become experienced in their further development.
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Ever faithfully yours,
F. Liszt
[Weimar,] December 1st, 1859
I quite agree with your project of giving two prizes. The first
prize will be awarded to the above-mentioned treatise, unless,
which I doubt, a still more successful one should be sent in.
226. To Anton Rubenstein
Certainly, my very honored friend, I shall not leave off taking a
very sincere and loyal part in the unfolding of the career that
you are pursuing with such rare prowess, and all that you can
tell me of your doings in composition and musical conducting will
always find in me a lively interest. Thank you, therefore, for
your nice letter, which contains also a promise which I shall be
very much pleased to see you fulfill - namely, that of your visit
next spring, in company with your Opera in four acts - and
probably also with your "Song of Songs," which you do not mention
to me, but which I am none the less desirous, on that account, of
knowing.
Have you thought well to give your "Paradise Lost" at St.
Petersburg? I urged you strongly to do so, for it is a capital
work, which does you great honor, and the place of which seems
fixed in your concerts.
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