My
friend Bronsart undertakes the direction of the Euterpe concerts
for this winter, and there will be some rows about it. We will
await the result; if it should not be satisfactory, yet the
matter is so arranged that it cannot do us any great harm. As
regards Vienna I think it would be wisest to let this winter pass
by without troubling ourselves about it. Messrs. B., V.B., and
their associates may peacefully have Symphonies and other works
performed there and mutually blow each other's trumpets.
I have still a request to make to you today, dearest Eduard.
Persuade Herbeck to send the score and the chorus and orchestral
part of my "Prometheus" at once to C.F. Kahnt, the music
publisher in Leipzig. The work is fixed for performance at one of
the Euterpe concerts, which will take place before Christmas of
this year; so it is necessary that the choruses should be studied
in time. Kahnt has already written to Herbeck and also to Spina -
but as yet he has received neither an answer nor the parts and
score of Prometheus that he wants.
Take the same opportunity of telling Herbeck that I should like
once to hear the four Schubert Marches which I instrumented for
him, and I beg him to send the score of them to me at Weymar.
Forgive me that I always trouble you with all sorts of
commissions - but my Vienna acquaintances are so lazy and
unreliable that I have no other alternative but to set you on
everywhere.. - .
Heartfelt greetings to your wife and children from your faithful
and grateful
F. Liszt
P.S. - I have written something to Cornelius about my latest
compositions, which he will tell you.
