166 To Louis Kohler
Enclosed, dear friend, is a rough copy of the Prelude to “Rheingold,” which Wagner has handed me for you, and which will be sure to give you great pleasure.
After having been obliged to keep my bed for a couple of weeks, which has lengthened out my stay here, I am now making ready to go with Wagner the day after tomorrow to St. Gall, there to conduct a couple of my Symphonic Poems with a very respectable orchestra (twenty violins, six double basses, etc.). Toward the middle of December I shall be back in Weymar, and shall continue to write my stuff!—
A thousand friendly greetings.
F. Liszt
Zurich, November 21st, 1856