F. Liszt
Rome, December 11th, 1880.
We will play your duet arrangement together before it is published, in Weimar—next spring.
[Here, Liszt illustrates with Musical score excerpts]
272. To Professor S. Jadassoiin in Leipzig
[Composer (born in 1831), teacher at the Leipzig Conservatoire since 187l]
Dear Sir,
Your setting of the 100th Psalm is nobly religious in feeling and excellent in style. The working out of the choruses is masterly throughout, from beginning to end; a passage which comes out with especial brilliancy is that on pages 14, 15-19, 20, "with rejoicing," where the trombones, and then the trumpets and trombones, joyously repeat the subject of the fugue in augmentation.
The Arioso too which follows, "He made us," is most fervent in expression. There is a fine field here for beautiful contralto voices to rejoice in.
My sincere thanks, dear sir, for the dedication of this excellent work. I shall recommend it for performance to such of my friends as are conductors; above all, to Hofcapellmeister Muller-Hartung, whom I shall request to bring out your Psalm at Weimar.