LISZT Franz (1811-1886)

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LISZT Franz (1811-1886)
L.A.S. "F. Liszt", Weimar July 12, 1856, [to Count Michel WIELHORSKI]; 3 pages petit in-4 (small photograph stuck in vignette on the 1st page). Nice letter on his compositions and symphonic poems. Count Michel WIELHORSKI (1787-1856), music lover and composer, great cupbearer at the Russian Court, was a friend of Beethoven and Berlioz. He received this letter on August 21 (note at the top of the letter: "received August 9/21"), and died in Moscow on September 9]. "A few weeks ago I asked Prince Eugene Wittgenstein to bring you from me the package of my first six published scores, and today H.E. Baron de Vitzthum is willing to give you these lines. If you have glanced at the scores you will have noticed (for your eyes can hear) that the past years have not made me any worse musician than before, and now I would like these lines to tell you fully too, how faithfully I have remained attached to the memory of those who have been good and benevolent to me, among whom you will allow me to reserve a special place for you, - something like the choirmaster in the orchestra, for more than once you have taken the care to indicate the measure and the nuances to several of the performers who had not been well advised to do so. How happy I would be to resume with you some of these conversations where I always had a double benefit of pleasure and instruction to make! Perhaps you will come to some fine day in these parts, however, and if I had a favor to ask of the Grand Duchess it would be to invite you to come and inspect our new musical household in Weymar. It would be a real feast for me to let you hear several of my Symphonic Poems and to communicate to you other elucubrations of my new kind, which, if nothing else, have at least the merit of being the proper and unborrowed expression of my individuality as it is, which will always remain very sincerely affectionate and respectfully grateful to you"... Provenance Old collection Arturo TOSCAN
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