[...] Seidl tells me that he is not entering his application for Mannheim. He is doing the right thing and it lifts a weight from my heart, for though he is gifted he has no experience at all.
I can now recommend Fischer to you all the more strongly. After assuring me that they would appoint him music-director they only made him trainer of the chorus, which has offended me! Fischer is thoroughly experienced, is versed in repertory and is reliable through and through. I can answer for him!—Please tell him of my recommendation and offer him the post of music-director, to be shared with Langer. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 706