LISZT (Franz). Autograph letter signed, in French, to the mu - Lot 90

LISZT (Franz). Autograph letter signed, in French, to the music publisher Hermann Härtel. [Weimar], November 10, 1852. 4 pp. in-8 on grey paper, large split at the fold. " ... I am hastening to return to you the two enclosed papers with my signature by which our small accounts are thus settled. As for the account in addition of about 80 ecus which I thank you for having sent me by the same occasion, I will not delay either to pay it, only, as it contains SEVERAL ARTICLES WHICH HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE INTENDANCE OF THE THEATRE (SUCH AS ATHALIE [BY FELIX MENDELSSOHN], THE PIANO PARTS OF LOHENGRIN [BY RICHARD WAGNER], THE SYMPHONY OF SCHUBERT, ETC.), you will allow me to wait a few more days in order to claim the sum due to me and which I did not know until now had been charged to my account. - Believing even that these various shipments of music that I had requested for the use of the theater had been paid for a long time by the stewardship. I beg you to excuse this confusion, for which I can only be at fault unknowingly. As for the publication of the Pater Nostra and the Ave Maria, you will do so entirely as you wish, and I have no other desire in this regard than not to separate the Pater from the Ave, because of the smallness of the former; but either you publish these two pieces with the mass, or they appear separately (always leaving the two together), either way is equally convenient for me. For more convenience, I made them bound in the same book as having been written at the same time and belonging to the same style. BERLIOZ HAS JUST WRITE TO ME THAT HE WILL PROBABLY ARRIVE HERE 2 OR 3 DAYS AGO - and convenience and our repertoire have made it necessary to fix November 17 (instead of 18) as the date for the FIRST REPRESENTATION OF THE REPEAT OF CELLINI [Hector Berlioz's opera Benvenuto Cellini]. As soon as he leaves, I will put in order the catalog which you are kind enough to publish and which I would be pleased to be able to distribute before the end of the winter. You will receive the manuscript before Christmas. Mr. Weyden being a friend of mine for several years [Ernst Weyden, professor at the University of Cologne], I take the liberty of recommending him to you and I am pleased to hope that your relations with him, on the occasion of the translation of Chopin's volume, will be of an easy and pleasant nature... "