Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

3i8 3fY MUSICAL EXPERIENCES
would have to be made at a pincli. They say here
that you are married. May it go right well with you,
as you indeed deserve ! Farewell ! I am weary with
too much happiness and too much sorrow.
'E. Schumann.'
The report of Henselt's marriage had not been
correctly reported, for it was not until four weeks
after the receipt of this letter that, on the 24th of
October, 1837, in Salzbruun, Silesia, Henselt was
united to his Eosalie. He had known her as the
wife of Dr. Vogel, who was a friend of Goethe, and
physician to Carl August in Weimar. His wonderful
Pohne d'Amour is dedicated to her.
At length, on the 29th of December, he accepted
Schumann's invitation, and on being heard at Leipzig
for the first and the last time in public was received
with endless salve, and feted with the highest honours.
A few days later, without any presentiment that he
was doing so, he in Dresden bid farewell for ever to
an art career ia Germany. It was but in death that
Adolf Henselt was given back to us.
The accompanying letters from Liszt and Von
Billow, and the letter read to Henselt on the occasion
of his jubilee, were given to me by Frau Mila, of
Berlin, Henselt's niece by marriage.