Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Author:Richard Wagner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: head right, in Rienzi at his favour of an early perfc theatre. ormance of my Pray do not be angry with I have ventured to send you through Meser the sc... more »ores of my Rienzi and Tannhduser, and wish and hope that the latter will please you better than the former. Let me thank you sincerely for the great kindnesses you have shown me. May your sentiments remain always the same towards Your faithfully devoted Richard Wagner. Dresden, March zznd, 1846. Dear Friend, Herr Halbert tells me you want my overture to Goethe's Faust. As I know of no reason to withhold it from you except that it does not please me any longer, I send it to you, because I think that in this matter the only important question is whether the overture pleases you. If the latter should be the case, dispose of my work; only I should like occasionally to have the manuscript back again. You will now have to go through capellmeister agonies of the first quality; so I can imagine, and my opera is just the kind of thing for that to one who takes a loving interest in it. Learn to know these sufferings; they are the daily bread I eat. May God give you strength and joy in your hard work. Trorr my heart yours, Richard Wagner. Dresden January yth, 1848. chapter{Section 45- Most Excellent Friend, You told me lately that you had closed your piano for some time, and I presume that for the present you have turned banker. I am in a bad state, and like lightning the thought comes to me that you might help me. The edition of my three operas has been undertaken by myself; the capital I have borrowed in various quarters; I have now received notice to repay all the money, and I cannot hold out another week, for every attempt to sell my copyrights, even for the bare outlay, has in these difficult ...« less