Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("KLOPSTOCK"), TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT, UNPUBLISHED IN THE HAMBURGER KLOPSTOCK-AUSGABE discussing Hermann und die Fürsten, a copy of which he encloses [not included here], adding that he will send him the third volume, Hermanns Tod, as soon as it has been printed, noting that the copy he sends him of Hermann und die Fürsten contains additions which no one else knows about, explaining that a composer [presumably Friedrich Kunzen] has set the songs contained in it and that it is now ready for performance, exploring the possibility of giving the first performance of the work in his correspondent's theatre, mentioning Hermanns Schlacht and the Emperor [Joseph II] to whom he dedicated it, observing that although the latter is no less interested in the stage, it never occurred to him to perform that 'poem of the fatherland', referring to a journey he proposes to make to Karlsruhe with his nieces, noting that the Countess Stolberg refers to him as the 'eternal youth', explaining in some details his requirements for his journey and asking him for a good travelling carriage and horse; in the closing passages of the letter, as well as raising other matters, Klopstock indicates that he intends to visit en route the Landgrave of Homburg, whose intention it was to erect a memorial to Hermann [Arminius] in the vicinity of his battle ...Ein Komponist, der schon vor einem Paar Jahren viel versprach, hat jetzo, durch die Setzung der Gesänge dieses Bardiets, noch mehr gehalten. Das Gedicht wäre also zur Aufführung fertig. Ew. Durchlaucht haben eine Schaubühne. Auch kön[n]ten Sie, dachte ich, wenn es nötig wäre, von Manheim Hülfsvölker kommen lassen. Aber vielleicht wäre es gerathener, die Aufführung Liebhabern anzuvertraun... 4 pages, 4to (23 x 18.9cm), pencil annotation to third page, Hamburg, 28 February 1787, vertical and horizontal folds, a few small stains; together with the draft of a letter in an unidentified hand, ascribed in pencil to Klopstock in another hand, dated Karlsruhe, 28 April 1787, 2 pages
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("KLOPSTOCK"), TO AN UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT, UNPUBLISHED IN THE HAMBURGER KLOPSTOCK-AUSGABE discussing Hermann und die Fürsten, a copy of which he encloses [not included here], adding that he will send him the third volume, Hermanns Tod, as soon as it has been printed, noting that the copy he sends him of Hermann und die Fürsten contains additions which no one else knows about, explaining that a composer [presumably Friedrich Kunzen] has set the songs contained in it and that it is now ready for performance, exploring the possibility of giving the first performance of the work in his correspondent's theatre, mentioning Hermanns Schlacht and the Emperor [Joseph II] to whom he dedicated it, observing that although the latter is no less interested in the stage, it never occurred to him to perform that 'poem of the fatherland', referring to a journey he proposes to make to Karlsruhe with his nieces, noting that the Countess Stolberg refers to him as the 'eternal youth', explaining in some details his requirements for his journey and asking him for a good travelling carriage and horse; in the closing passages of the letter, as well as raising other matters, Klopstock indicates that he intends to visit en route the Landgrave of Homburg, whose intention it was to erect a memorial to Hermann [Arminius] in the vicinity of his battle ...Ein Komponist, der schon vor einem Paar Jahren viel versprach, hat jetzo, durch die Setzung der Gesänge dieses Bardiets, noch mehr gehalten. Das Gedicht wäre also zur Aufführung fertig. Ew. Durchlaucht haben eine Schaubühne. Auch kön[n]ten Sie, dachte ich, wenn es nötig wäre, von Manheim Hülfsvölker kommen lassen. Aber vielleicht wäre es gerathener, die Aufführung Liebhabern anzuvertraun... 4 pages, 4to (23 x 18.9cm), pencil annotation to third page, Hamburg, 28 February 1787, vertical and horizontal folds, a few small stains; together with the draft of a letter in an unidentified hand, ascribed in pencil to Klopstock in another hand, dated Karlsruhe, 28 April 1787, 2 pages
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