May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
"KIND OPINION . . . OF MY 'MESSE DE GRAU' AND MY 'ORATORIO DU CHRIST'" LISZT, FRANZ. Autograph Letter Signed, "F. Liszt," to "Madam Princess," in French, thanking her for constant kindnesses, asking forgiveness for having failed to give her letter of recommendation to Mr. De Sournerand, and asking whether she would accept the enclosed book by Mr. Nohl [not present], who has written favorable reviews of Debussy's works in the Allgemeine Zeitung. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on a single folded sheet; short closed separation at center vertical fold. Pest, 1 November 1873
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"Your very gracious lines did not reach me until the moment of my departure from Vienna. . . . [L]ast Tuesday has added yet another date to those [kindnesses] for which I am very sincerely grateful.
"Will you forgive me an unintentional fault of omission . . . ? I only had a couple of hours to spend at the exhibition. Mr. De Sournerand was not there after all, and I had to leave for Pest without giving him your letter of recommendation.
". . . I . . . send you . . . the votive offering of Mr. Nohl, to whom I owe thanks for the kind opinion he recently gave in the Allgemeine Zeitung of my Messe de Grau and my Oratorio du Christ. Nohl will be coming here to listen to this work again at the festival on 9 November, and I want to be as helpful to him as possible. Thus I beg to ask your Highness to . . . accept the dedication of his new volume which it is his ambition to offer to you. . . ."