Sgambati has finished a second, very remarkable Quintet (for
Piano and Strings), which will soon be heard in Rome.
Zarembski (whom I introduced to you) works valiantly, and deserves to be reckoned as an unusually excellent pianist of the first rank.
A revoir in February, and yours very devotedly,
F. Liszt
Villa d'Este, November 17th, 1875
If you should see the Jaells before their concerts in Rome, give them my most affectionate remembrances.
179. To Eduard von Liszt
My Honored Friend,
What you felt at the performance of the Gran Mass has extremely rejoiced me. "He who loves understands."
Give Herbeck my warmest thanks for the carefulness of the rehearsals and performance of this work, about which I allowed myself to make the remark (in Paris 1866), to a personage of the very highest rank, that "it had been more criticised than heard."