Write to me at Brussels, where I shall be from May 1st to 4th, and address your letter to Zarembski.
293. To Madame Malwine Tardieu
Unless I receive a countermand from you, I shall be in Brussels on Sunday evening. [The first performance of "St. Elizabeth in French took place on the 3rd of May. Saint-Saens, Massenet, Francis Plante, and others besides were present.] I shall take the liberty of sending you a telegram on the road to give you the hour of my arrival. It will interest me greatly to hear the "Herodiade". [Liszt heard Massenet's opea on 2nd of May.] Bulow's exceedingly witty article on Saint-Saens' "Samson", which Bulow declares to be the best and most successful of all the Operas that have been performed for the last fifteen years (excepting Wagner's),—this article, which creates a sensation and makes a noise at "Landerneau," will reach you at the same time as these lines from your affectionate servant,
F. Liszt
Weimar, April 23rd, 1882
294. To Otto Lessmann
I owe you so many thanks, dear, esteemed friend, that I could never get to the end of them. If the canon form were less unfamiliar to me, I would dedicate a symphonic Canone perpetuo of thanksgiving to you.
Our friend Adelheid von Schorn tells me that you are likely to spend your holidays at Weimar. A hearty welcome to you.
This year the Tonkunstler-Versammlung, at which I am accustomed to appear as a superfluous necessity ("le superflu, chose si necessaire," according to Voltaire), ever since the foundation of these gatherings twenty years ago with Brendel—takes place at Zurich from the 9th to the 12th July.
Let us go there together, dear friend, from Weimar. I read by preference your excellent newspaper, and am making a lively propaganda for it.