# - Liszt, Franz.

thanking him for the information that his "Faust" Symphony did not suffer too terrible a fate in Leipzig, noting that he has long accustomed himself to enduring the disastrous reception of his works ("...Obschon ich seit lange Zeit gefasst bin, den Fiasco meiner Werke ruhig...zu ertragen, so ist es mir doch angenehm zu erfahren dass die Faust Symphonie in Leipzig kein zu schlimmes Loos hatte..."), discussing the conductor Bronsart, regretting that did not act decisively earlier to defuse the situation between them, and defending tactfully Bronsart's position in the matter of the right of conductors to choose new works for performance; Liszt also discusses the German musical establishment, ascribing its feebleness and withered state on the cowardice and taciturnity of the Kapellmeisters and directors of music, arguing that Bronsart be retained as director of the Leipzig Euterpe Verein, emphasising that his opinion is an objective one since he has not heard from Bronsart since last September; in addition, Liszt mentions [Alexander] Gottschalg, his 'legendary cantor', whose letters, written from the heart, he is always glad to receive, and the tenor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, to whom he arranges to send a bound copy of his songs



4 pages, 8vo, no place, [Rome], 12 April 1862

La Mara, Letters of Franz Liszt (English translation, 1969)

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A wide-ranging letter to Franz Brendel (1811-1868), who succeeded Schumann as editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and who was the author of a book on the composer. Both Brendel and the conductor Hans von Bronsart (1830-1913) were former students of Liszt and both were among the leading voices in promoting the New Germany School, which strove to promote the music of Wagner and Liszt over the 'conservative' music of Brahms.