I have thought it out and decided not to use Oehlenschläger's Aladdin for an opera, but to write a composition in which drama music, dancing and magic are combined – cut down for one evening's performance if possible. It is my old idea of a play with music "where it is necessary", without hampering the dialogue. As a spectacle and as a deep symbolic work it might be something similar to the "Magic Flute"; at the same time it would have a better meaning and an indestructible subject ["mit besserem Sinn und einem nicht tot zu machenden Sujet"]. Besides this, I have planned 6 works for the summer, the principal one being the pianoforte Concerto. How beautiful!