Liszt (Franz, composer, pianist and conductor, 1811-86) Autograph Letter signed to the publisher, Kistner, in French and German, 5pp., sm. 4to, Weimar, 18th September 1848, about the publication of his music, informing him that he will be receiving a package containing a manuscript, probably the song "Die Macht der Musik", urging that he should send the proofs as quickly as possible, giving instructions as to the dedication, the layout of the title-pages and the designs for it, with the twin crowns of Russia and Saxony as befits the dedicatee [Duchess Maria Pavlovna] and giving information about a performance of the work by Miss Haller; he discusses the publication of his arrangements of two songs of Mendelssohn "Wasserfahrt" and "Derjäger's Abschied", which should be bound together, describes the market for which the arrangements are aimed ("...Ich habe es für mittelmässige Spieler berechnet..."), gives details of the arrangement of the songs for piano duet by Kroll which he has himself revised, suggests that he would be happy that they be published under his own name as long as Franz Kroll receives the payment; he also encloses a short song of twenty bars which he offers to Kistner for publication, discusses the appearance of Kistner's proposed catalogue of Liszt's works, provides an amusing discourse on this in two languages, offers his suggestions for the style of this publication, comparing it with the style of Liszt's arrangements of two symphonies of Beethoven and thanks him for the fine cigars, folds, slightly foxed and browned.

⁂ On the evidence of this letter, Liszt was quite willing to pass Kroll's songs off as his own work, as in the case of the Mendelssohn songs for four hands.