... think, Furtwängler is entitled to be left in peace by me for a good while. Other musicians in Berlin, mostly professors, write letters of thanks to me, but more solid connections have not developed therefrom. It may be true that I am known at least by ...

... there is room for thousands upon thousands of people going astray as they draw near, who at least while drawing near can count as "individuals," whereas there is no place or development where people crawl along merely with words, like the ape dressed in ...

... prefer to write to him yourself. For some weeks, a plan has developed among Dr. Weisse's students for a monthly musical periodical Die Tonkunst, which is to be devoted exclusively to the cultivation and application of my theories. If the financial support ...

... he has all the qualities needed to develop into a respectable music teacher: ear, intellect, speech and humor. For the moment he is wrestling with the nerves of a youth; once his nerves have firmed up, all these qualities will come more clearly to the ...

... alien to me and also contradict the subject matter, whose beginning and end I prefer most of all to develop myself. I prefer to accompany each discipline with observations that lead toward the whole. And it will be a special joy if someone from Cologne ...

... in money and sunk in dull-witted indolence had to be acquainted with the law of development, whereby Professor No. 1 will inevitably beget a Professor No. 2, and so on. Let me also say that in the foreseeable future the transfer to state control is ...

... however take the view that one should remain only where one has good employment. Is Cube still studying with you? Has his promising development been maintained? I hope you are relieved of Komorn. – I must close: Die Meistersinger is about to begin. Very ...

... published by Breitkopf. For all of these my warmest thanks and most heartfelt appreciation. Your Fantasy deserves its name, for it is full of fantasy, significant as a whole, interesting throughout, with a broad sweep to it and finely crafted development. It ...

... gratitude to you, though I think of you in every minute of the day, with a just a single tone. I had to be able to work intensely on the development of the Institute … but the dirt that was piled on top of me will suffocate me. My life-blood, my strength is ...

... professorship. But I am too feminine, and I need it for the sake of my development. Enough for now. Do not leave me waiting too long for a reply, so that I might even now possibly approach Mahler. How happy I am to have the likes of Redlich and Gaertner behind ...