So
Please Do You Undertake The Office Of Unchaining Prometheus In
Vienna; This Labour Of Hercules Will Become You Well [Footnote
Below].
There are certainly no powerful eagles to hack and rend
in pieces the Titan's liver - but there is a whole host of ravens
and creeping vermin ready to do it.
- Once more best thanks and
greetings from your most highly esteeming and very devoted
F. Liszt
[It took place on the 26th February, 1860. Herbeck notes as
follows about it in his diary: "Prometheus, Symphonic Poem,
pleased fairly. Chorus of Tritons pleased extremely. The
Vintagers' and Reapers' choruses and concluding chorus pleased,
but of course there was a formally organized opposition hissing.
They had sworn the overthrow of this music, without even
knowing a note of it."]
232. To Dr. Franz Brendel.
So then it has happened well that the editor of the Neue
Zeitschrift has also become the editor of my "Gesammelte Lieder."
Best thanks, dear friend, for the means you have taken to promote
this. Kahnt has only to come to an understanding with
Schlesinger; I on my side do not wish to place any limitation on
his rights. Whether a transcription of this or that song may be
made I do not know; if this should be the case I will only beg
Kahnt to let me know of any such chance transcriptions before
allowing them to appear, mainly because it would not be pleasant
to me if any really too stupid arrangements should come out.
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