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She died at Frankfort, May 19, 1896, and is buried beside her husband in Bonn. Franz Liszt and his Carolyne In the famous Wagner-Liszt correspondence, Liszt writes from Weimar, under date of April 8, 1853, "Daily the Princess greets me with the lines 'Nicht Gut, noch Geld, noch Göttliche Pracht." The lines are from "Götterdämmerung," the whole passage being
I have always entreated you not to abandon the work, and am delighted by the perfection of your poetic workmanship. Almost every day the Princess greets me with the words "Nicht Gut, nicht Geld, noch gottliche Pracht; Nicht Haus, nicht Hof, noch herrischer Prunk; Nicht truber Vertrage trugender Bund, Noch heuchelnder Sitte hartes Gesetz: Selig in Lust und Leid, lasst die Liebe nur sein!"
"Nicht Gut, nicht Gold, noch gottliche Pracht; nicht Haus, nicht Hof, nicht herrischer Prunk, nicht truber Vertrage trugender Bund, noch heuchelnder Sitte hartes Gesetz: selig in Lust und Leid lasst die Liebe nur sein! " Sign this with your name, your great name, enclose it in an envelope, address it to me, and put it in the post.
Here Beethoven, after humming and hawing with great sweetness, said "Heigho," and the Andante came to an end. Applause, and a round of "wunderschoning" and pracht volleying from the German contingent.
We shall have to separate physiologically things which in consciousness exist undivided, since a philosophic description is bound to be analytic and cannot render everything at once. Fahr hin, Walhall's Leuchtende Welt!... Leb' wohl, pragende Götter Pracht!
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