"Dear Mignonka,
the world is full of dark sides that leave dark pages in my diary... and the darkest, I fear, are dawning...
I clearly remember the other days, the light ones, when I encountered your city Budapest and I first saw you.... your laughter effervescent... the light radiating from your eyes and the color from your hands..... open and filled with life........ Major and minor sounds and violin clefs swelled out of the Danube. The trees at the shore - thirsty - soaked up every drop into their blooming crowns until Autumn.
Young and full of zest and with a huge admiration for my Maître Schoenberg Vienna held me captive! You weren't afraid then making the journey and I held your small hands tight in mine until the chill of the evening exiled us from the damp, rotting, sweet smell of the Parks......
We took the days... forgetting about time....... Music was my life, it flowed through me like fireworks in your presence......
Now, years later, I am still feeling your captivation spell... and I can still imagine you dancing in the stream of the years of our lives.......
In an unguarded moment, we abandoned each other. I followed my musical path to Zurich and Prague. You lived for your sons and your beloved piano..... and forgave your husband all his other loves.........
In different places the threats broke into our lives. You recognized the first signs. The darkness rolled faster towards us and spread its black shroud over the cities and landscapes......
I imagine your tender silhouette descending the stairways of this old house and pushing open the heavy wooden door with both hands pressed firmly against it....
You make hast along the walls. Your hair, usually knotted, flutters wildly around your temples.... your steps slow down and get lost in the sinister silence of the city.....
I wanted to warn you... but you couldn't hear me. I sent the resonance of the whole symphony orhestra to you to make you return into your protective walls.... but you did not hear it.....
Now, in this moment, I wish I could have at least saved you from the henchmen, who will load me with endless others into the wagons.......
There exists still a spark of light in my heart and a little piece of pencil for the numberless words I would like to write you... Let us burrow into the rapture of music.... let us pull it like a silk thread through the darkness... as I feel your beloved hand in mine, clenched in a fist like a scream against that which cannot be expressed in words. I gently release it kissing each single finger ... In this reverie I feel close to you again....
I now embrace your tender face and the radiance of our smiles touch forever......
Yours, Viktor" (Text: Susanne Hajdu © / engl. Übersetzung: Cheryl S. Marinoff) |