Object #21
Capacity for enthusiasm

Der junge Schumann
Dichtungen und Briefe, herausgegeben von Alfred Schumann
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1910

Dear Jalowetz, This Christmas I am sending you this book about “young Schumann”. It is so wonderful, Schumann’s capacity for enthusiasm. Yes, this capacity is most delightful. His writing about Beethoven! I want to descend into wonderment as well. Beethoven, Mahler, Schönberg and Wagner, etc. Being entirely with these spirits. And being able to express what I sense. Music is the most sublime of all. It is the most magnificent thing in existence; in the whole cosmos. [...]
Wishing you and your wife a happy and healthy Christmas from my wife and me.
With warmest greetings, and write soon.
Yours, Webern
Anton Webern to Heinrich Jalowetz, Zehlendorf, December 21, 1911