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Liszt, Franz - La Lugubre Gondola No. 1, S 200
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Maurizio Pollini: Liszt - La Lugubre Gondola No. 1, S 200
Letter to Ferdinand Taborszky, 1885
First of all, dear friend, will you be so kind as to go to my house with Frau von Fabry? I stupidly forgot there—in the bedroom, not in the salon—the beautiful and revised copy of a composition for piano and violin or violoncello, together with the transcription of the same for pianoforte alone. The title is “La lugubre Gondola” (the funeral gondola). As though it were a presentiment, I wrote this élégie in Venice six weeks before Wagner’s death.
Now I should like it to be brought out by Fritzsch (Leipzig), Wagner’s publisher, as soon as I receive it from you in Weimar. Hearty greetings to your family.
Ever faithfully yours,
Liszt