F. Liszt
June 21st, 1876
192. To Hofcapellmeister Max Erdmannsdorfer
Very honored Friend,
Thanking you very much for your kind invitation, I shall willingly come next Sunday, and rejoice that I shall again hear a special Sondershausen concert. Berlioz's "Harold-Symphony" is to me an old, ever-fresh recollection: the Sondershausen orchestra played it capitally at the first Festival of the "Music of the Future" in Ballenstedt, which I conducted.
Send me soon the whole printed programme. Can you already conduct
Wagner's new "Fest Marsch?"
I beg for Bulow's "Nirwana," if possible, and in case there should be room for anything, not long, of mine, I would most modestly suggest the Symphonic Poem "Hamlet," which I never heard. Most friendly greetings to your wife, and believe me always
Yours most sincerely,
F. Liszt
Weimar, June 27th, 1876