Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Franz Liszt

July 22, 1855 · Seelisberg

Overview

Wagner says he now thinks only of Liszt's coming visit and is glad it was postponed, since the delay will let him prepare more of Die Walkure for their meeting. He asks Liszt to regard the encounter as a climactic moment in both their lives and to arrange ordinary matters accordingly.

Letter

Dearest Friend,

I think of nothing now but our meeting and being together. I am glad you did not come sooner, because at present I should be able to show you very little of the Valkyrie, and I am pleased therefore to have a good deal of time for the completion of the score. By November I shall have finished, at least, the first two acts, even the clean copy of them. Consider this, and bear in mind that it will be a CLIMAX OF OUR LIVES, for the sake of which all common things must be got over and brought into order. I count upon your magnanimity.

Richard Wagner

Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 193

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