http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/309736419

Wiesbaden, 25 September 1873, to an unidentified recipient

Thanking him for sending some music, saying he has forwarded the Variations to Hartvigson in St. Petersburg, adding that his latest cantata [Deutschlands Auferstehung] was honored in Leipzig, though it was no ordinary performance, that in 1863 Blassmann offererd a chorus of 40 for the performance, which Raff declined, that later the cantata was given in Königsberg by the Verein der Liedfreunde, that two years earlier [i.e. 1871] it was also successful in Dresden, but that its wider acceptance is hindered by Müller v[on] d[er] Werra's "patriotisch-democratische" text, adding that one must have a poem that transcends momentary difficulties and has value for all time, saying he has considered Prof. Ad. Stern in Dresden for the preparation of a suitable text, asking if the recipient has any interest in a volume of pretty, short piano pieces written by Gotthold Kunkel in Frankfurt, but thoroughly revised and improved by Raff, etc.

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