Nevertheless, in looking through your Methode I find some exercises much to be recommended, namely, the "interlocking passages" page 136 to 142;—and all the "accentual treatment" of Exercises. [The italics (here in quotations) in this sentence are written in English and in italics by Liszt.]
May your pupils and the editor obtain from them all the profit that I wish them!
A thousand thanks, dear Mr. Mason, and count on my very affectionate and devoted sentiments of old.
F. Liszt
88. To the Composer Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen
[Printed in Gottschalg's "Chorgesang," 1890.—Schulz-Beuthen was born in 1838.]
Very dear Sir,
That you have dedicated your 42nd and 43rd Psalms to me I feel to be an honor in the artistic sense, for which I am sincerely grateful. It is long since any new composition has given me the impression of intellectual strength and musical completeness such as I find in yours. And this work stands even above eminent compositions of the kind. It appears to me even more fully rounded, pregnant and powerful than your 29th Psalm, which I justly recognised as a distinguished work upon first reading it through. The grand impression produced by your 29th Psalm on the occasion of the Tonkunstler-Versammlung in Dessau confirmed my predictions, and I am convinced that wherever the 42nd and 43rd Psalms are heard every person with any depth of soul will feel their sublime beauty, and offer you something more valuable than mere ordinary applause. Do not look for word-making from me; I never knew much about it, and I can still less try my hand at it now in my old age. But allow me, very dear sir, to tell you quite frankly and briefly this:—
You must not hold yourself aloof and at a distance; your splendid works must be performed, printed and circulated. And although— owing to the idle and impudent chatter of many leaders of the press—my influence in musical matters has been reduced to a minimum, still I hope shortly to arrange a performance of your Psalms in one or two places.
With sincere esteem I remain yours very truly,