[Letter from Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Munich]
Date
1914-03-03
Creator
Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
Subject headings
Casals, Pablo, 1876-1973
Place
Munich
Description
Casals is feeling better, in spite of a backache. He doesn't like the cold winter weather. He will arrive in Paris the next day at noon. He will visit many old friends there, including the Countess de Morphy, Faure, Cortot, Thibaud and Salmon. Horszowski and others will come to see him and help him prepare for his trip to London on the 6 . "I mention all these names because it is among these people that I've spent my stays in Paris in recent years, and even without seeing them, I know that I have been in their thoughts, and they have played a role in my life in the sense that they have all always done well by me." Today he is playing with Moor. "I didn't tell you that I was rather disappointed by the concert in Vienna on the 28th with Dohnanyi. It's a shame. I'd been so interested in this concert and was so looking forward to it. Artistic joys are more and more rare for me - among the mediocrity, the disappointment, I often ask myself what I should do - should I continue to endure so much unpleasantness only for material reward or should I retire and preserve around us faith and respect for pure art." He is feeling better, but will see a doctor in London. "How much I would like to no longer think of these concerts, this travel, these horrible impresarios."
Type
text
Original format
correspondence
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
fr
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
MSS246 Susan Metcalfe Letters, 1902 - 1922
Series/grouping
1: Letters To/From Pablo Casals
Box
1
Folder
26: Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Munich, 3 March 1914
