Editorial remarks, references
Editorial remarks
The four letters which are published here for the first time have the following inventory numbers: NMI 064/IC29 (3-6-[1866]), NMI 064/IC30 (21-6-1867), NMI 064/IC31 (20-8-1867), NMI 064/IC32 (26-8-1870).
According to family tradition the Liszt-Von Schwartz correspondence comprised some two hundred letters (communication of Mr. Peter Stoetzer, Hamburg). Von Schwartz donated a number (most?) of her Liszt letters in 1888 to the first custodian of the Liszt Museum, Carl Gille (unpublished letter of Von Schwartz to La Mara, May 21 1892, GSA 59/415,2). Nowadays the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv in Weimar hosts twelve letters from Liszt to Von Schwartz and fifteen from Von Schwartz to Liszt. A few of these have been included in the anthologies edited by La Mara (which are not fully reliable). It is unknown whether more letters remain in other archives. Maybe a complete edition of the Liszt-Von Schwartz correspondence will provide an opportunity for a more thorough study of their relations.
All known letters in this correspondence are written in French, Liszt's preferred language. In the four letters in this presentation there is no salutation; this is usual in his informal contacts. The identification of the addressee as M.E. von Schwartz had been registered in the Bory Collection (see the Introduction), and the contents proves this to be correct. From her side Von Schwartz addresses Liszt with expressions like "Très Révérendissime et très aimé", "Très aimé et très aimable Révérendissime."
Liszt's handwriting is remarkably clear, regular and legible, considering how much pressure his vast correspondence put on him. For ease of reading and searchability transcriptions have been added to the reproductions of the letters. These have been made as literal as possible, with the following reservations:
(1) Liszt's few standard abbreviations have been silently completed (doubling the overlined n and m, de/du for d); (2) incidental abbreviations have been completed between square brackets; (3) accents have been added conform standard spelling. In spite of inconsistencies, capitalization follows the manuscript. No modernization was applied to spelling (e.g. "sentimens"); punctuation (to the extent that it is recognizable) has been maintained.
The translation must be considered provisional, and it was made without any pretense of matching style and tone of the originals. Since the original text is reproduced as well, some idiosyncrasies have been ignored in favour of a uniform, readable presentation. Paragraphs were defined on the basis of subject rather than in accordance with the manuscript. Quote marks have been standardized; underlinings (and sometimes quote marks) have been replaced by italicization. Titles of works are also italicized. Additions which are not included in the transcription are placed between square brackets.
The annotations are intended primarily (1) to provide for the non-specialist a general historical and biographical context within which the letters acquire meaning; (2) to identify persons and works; (3) to clarify obscure references. Titles of Liszt's works are cited according to the catalogue by Maria Eckhardt and Rena Charnin Mueller (LW) in Grove Music Online.
Acknowledgments
For his enthusiastic sharing of information and providing materials from his family archive we thank Dipl.-Ing. MBA Peter Stoetzer in Hamburg, great-great-grandson of Espérance von Schwartz. Unpublished letters were consulted in photocopies obtained from the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv in Weimar.
Lodewijk Muns, August 2009
References
| AC |
AMSTERDAMSCHE COURANT |
| ARN |
ARNOLD, Ben (ed.): The Liszt companion (Westport CT: Greenwood Press 2002) |
| BER |
BERLIN, Isaiah: The Counter-Enlightenment. In: The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, ed. by Philip P. Wiener (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-11 |
| BHZ |
LA MARA (hrsg.): Briefe hervorragender Zeitgenossen an Franz Liszt / nach den Handschriften des Weimarer Liszt-Museums [...] hrsg. von La Mara [Marie Lipsius]. Bd. 2: 1855-1881 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1895) |
| BOTG |
BOTTENHEIM, S.A.M.: De geschiedenis van de "Graner Mis". In: Caecilia, jrg. 68 (1911), nr. 10 p. 342-345 |
| BOTL |
BOTTENHEIM, S.A.M.: Levensbericht van Mr Henricus Anastasius Viotta (16 Juli 1848-18 Februari 1933). In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1933 http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa003193301_01/_jaa003193301_01_0017.htm |
| BRÜ |
BRÜMMER, F.: Schwartz, Marie Esperance von. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, hrsg. von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bd. 54 (1908), p. 277 http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=ADB:Schwartz,_Marie_Esperance_von&oldid=512881 (Version vom 10. Mai 2009, 18:50 Uhr UTC) |
| CAE |
CAECILIA, Algemeen Muziekaal Tijdschrift van Nederland |
| CLI |
CLINTON, Michael: Frédéric Passy: Patriotic Pacifist. In: Journal of Historical Biography 2 (Autumn 2007) p. 33-62 |
| DUN |
DUNLEVY KELLEY, G. and George T. UPTON: Edouard Remenyi: Musician, litterateur, and man [etc.] (Chicago: McClurg, 1906) |
| EMD |
ELPIS MELENA [M.E. von Schwartz]: Dr. E. G. J. Grisanowski: Mitteilungen aus seinem Leben und seinen Briefen (Hannover: Schmorl & von Seefeld, 1890) |
| EME |
ELPIS MELENA [M.E. von Schwartz]: Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen eines mehr als 20jährigen Aufenthalts auf Kreta [etc.]; Neuausgabe des 1892 bei Schmorl & von Seefeld Nachf. in Hannover erschienenen Buches (Zehdenick: Pandora 2008) |
| EMG |
ELPIS MELENA [M.E. von Schwartz]: Garibaldi's memoirs; from his manuscript, personal notes and authentic sources assembled and publ. by Elpis Melena; ed. with introd. and annotations by Anthony P. Campanella; [transl. from the German by Erica Sigerist Campanella] (Sarasota, Florida: International Institute of Garibaldian Studies, 1981) |
| EMH |
ELPIS MELENA [M.E. von Schwartz]: Hundert und ein Tag auf meinem Pferde und ein Ausflug nach der Insel Maddalena (Hamburg: Campe, 1860) |
| FLA |
LISZT, Franz and Agnes STREET-KLINDWORTH: A correspondence; introd., transl., annot., and ed. by Pauline Pocknell (New York: Pendragon Press, cop. 2000) |
| FLB |
LISZT, Franz: Franz Liszt's Briefe (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1893-1905); Bd. 2: Von Rom bis an's Ende (1893); Bd. 6-7: Briefe an die Fürstin Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, Dritter/Vierter Theil (1899); Bd. 8: 1823-1886: neue Folge zu Bd. I und II (1905) |
| FLBA |
LISZT, Franz: Franz Liszt's Briefe an Baron Anton Augusz 1846-1878; hrsg. von Wilhelm von Csapó (Budapest: Kilián, 1911) |
| FLBU |
LISZT, Franz: Briefe aus ungarischen Sammlungen 1835-1886, gesamm. und erl. von Margit Prahács (Kassel [etc.]: Bärenreiter 1966) |
| FLM |
LISZT, Franz: The letters of Franz Liszt to Olga von Meyendorff, 1871-1886, in the Mildred Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks; transl. by William R. Tyler; introd. and notes by Edward N. Waters (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1979) |
| FLW |
Liszt, Franz: Selected letters; transl. and ed. by Adrian Williams (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998) |
| GAR |
GARIBALDI, Giuseppe: Lettere a Speranza von Schwartz; pref. di Natalia Aspesi (Firenze: Passigli, cop. 1982) |
| GDW |
GREGOR-DELLIN, Martin: Richard Wagner: sein Leben, sein Werk, sein Jahrhundert (München [etc.]: Piper, cop. 1980) |
| GRE |
GREGOROVIUS, Ferdinand Adolf: Römische Tagebücher; hrsg. von Friedrich Althaus (Stuttgart, 2. Aufl. 1893) |
| GSA |
GOETHE- UND SCHILLER-ARCHIV, WEIMAR |
| HAM |
HAMBURGER, Klára: Liszt and Émile Ollivier. In: Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, T. 28, Fasc. 1/4 (1986), pp. 65-77 |
| HEY |
HEYSE, Paul: Jugenderinnerungen und Bekenntnisse. Bd. 1: Aus dem Leben (Stuttgart und Berlin, 1912) |
| HOE |
HOE, Susanna: Crete: Women, history, books and places (Oxford: Holo Books, 2005) |
| KOR |
KORTSEN, Bjarne: Grieg's String Quartet and Robert Heckmann. In: Music & Letters, Vol. 49 Nr. 1 (Jan. 1968), p. 21-28 |
| LAM |
LA MARA [Marie Lipsius]: Liszt und die Frauen (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911) |
| LW |
ECKHARDT, Maria and Rena Charnin MUELLER: Works, in WALKER, Alan, et al.: Liszt, Franz, in Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 13 May. 2009 |
| MAI |
MAISTRE, Joseph de: Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, ou entretiens sur le gouvernement temporel de la Providence [etc.] (Bruxelles: Imprimerie de H. Goemaere, 1852) |
| NEW |
NEWMAN, Ernest: The life of Richard Wagner. Vol. 3: 1859-1866 (Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge Univerity Press, repr. 1980) |
| NZfM |
NEUE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR MUSIK |
| PAT |
PATAKY, Sophie: Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder. Bd. 2 (Berlin: Pataky, 1898) S. 287-288 |
| RFL |
RAMANN, Lina: Franz Liszt als Künstler und Mensch. Bd. II,2: Sammlung und Arbeit - Weimar und Rom. Die Jahre 1848-1886 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894) |
| RID |
RIDLEY, Jasper: Garibaldi (London: Constable, [1974]) |
| RL |
RAMANN, Lina: Lisztiana: Erinnerungen an Franz Liszt in Tagebuchblättern, Briefen und Dokumenten aus den Jahren 1873-1886/87; hrsg. von Arthur Seidl; Textrev. von Friedrich Schnapp (Mainz [etc.]: Schott, 1983) |
| SAF |
SAFFLE, Michael and Rossana DALMONTE: Liszt and the birth of modern Europe: Music as a mirror of religious, political, cultural, and aesthetic transformations [etc.] (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon, cop. 2003) |
| SCHE |
SCHELTEMA, J.H.: Caecilia: algemeen muzikaal tijdschrift van Nederland, 1844-1893 [etc.] ('s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1893) |
| SCHL |
SCHLÖZER, Kurd von: Römische Briefe 1864-1869 (Stuttgart [etc.]: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2. Aufl. 1913) |
| STA |
STAHR, Adolf und Fanny LEWALD: Ein Winter in Rom (Berlin: Guttentag (D. Collin), 1871) |
| SUT89 |
SUTTONI, Charles: Liszt correspondence in print: An expanded, annotated bibliography = Journal of the American Liszt Society, Vol. 25 (1989) |
| SUT99 |
SUTTONI, Charles: Liszt correspondence in print: A supplementary bibliography = Journal of the American Liszt Society, Vol. 46 (1999) |
| SZA |
SZALKAY, Julius: Elpis Melena - Frau Marie Esperance von Schwartz. In: Allgemeine Frauenzeitung: Organ der Schriftstellerinnen, Künstlerinnen und Lehrerinnen, Jhrg. 1893 nr. 5, p. 51, 52; nr. 6, p. 66, 67; nr. 7, p. 74 http://www2.onb.ac.at/ariadne/vfb/02guiafz.htm |
| WALF |
WALKER, Alan: Franz Liszt. Vol. 3: The final years, 1861-1886 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997) |
| WALW |
WALKER, Alan: Franz Liszt. Vol. 2: The Weimar years, 1848-1861 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993) |
