F. Liszt
Zurich, November 21st, 1856
167. To Eduard Liszt
St. Gall, November 24th, 1856
.—. A really significant concert took place yesterday at St. Gall. Wagner conducted the Eroica Symphony, and I conducted in his honor two of my Symphonic Poems. The latter were excellently given—and received. The St. Gall paper has several articles on the subject, which I am sending you.
By Christmas I will send you the new copies of my Mass (which I think I have considerably improved in the last revision, especially by the concluding Fugue of the Gloria and a heavenward-soaring climax of the subject.
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Probably the work will be ready to appear by Easter. If you write by return of post, you can send the ministerial answer to my letter to Bach to me here. The contents, of which you have told me, please me much, and I reckon with confidence that the publishing of the score will fix the sense and meaning of my work in public opinion. The work is truly "of pure musical water (not in the sense of the ordinary diluted Church style, but like diamond water) and living Catholic wine."
.—. Farewell, dearest Eduard, and remain true to me in heart and spirit, as is also to you your
F. Liszt