Max und Moritz. Vier der Streiche, in schöne und bekannte Musik gesetzt

My dear Max! So I couldn’t fail to put three of our most beautiful youthful escapades in music. The immortal poetry of the great Busch, who celebrated our deeds so brilliantly, has inspired me to music, so nice hardly to find: there are just wonderful melodies of our greatest opera composers, I – and this is a separate string of me - have stolen and captioned to the German verses. But, with what subtlety! [...] Schubert’s “Am Meer” fits to the delicious words „nämlich vor des Meisters Hause floss ein Wasser mit Gebrause!“ Our leitmotif, borrowed from Ortrud and Telramund! And when we saw through the bridge, the magnificent coloratura from Norma. [...] In faithful love, yours prankish Moritz