2nd. One of my Poemes Symphoniques.
3rd. "The Hunters of Siberia", Opera in one Act—Music by Rubinstein.
4th. The Finale of "Lorelei" by Mendelssohn.
For the winter season they are thinking of giving the two
"Iphigenies", "in Aulis" and "in Tauris", by Gluck, and
Schumann's "Genoveva".
Rubinstein and Wasielewski (of Bonn) have been here some days. Raff has published his volume "The Wagner Question." I would neither answer nor vindicate it!—My monster instrument with three keyboards has also arrived a fortnight ago, and seems to me to be a great success—and on your return I shall pretty nearly have finished my Faust Symphony, at which I am working like a being possessed.
This is all my news from here, to which I add the expression of the old and sincere friendship of your very affectionate
F. Liszt
P.S.—I, on my side, will also write to Mr. de Beaulieu about you, but it is the thing for you to write him a few lines. The matter in itself will not present any difficulty.
122. To Gaetano Belloni in Paris
[autograph in the possession of M. Etienne Charavay in Paris]