Nevertheless the original form was restored in German and Italian translations of the work, and it had concert performances in 1857.

To Joachim Raff was denied even this poor comfort.

He wrote a German "Simson" between 1851 and 1857.

The conductor at Darmstadt to whom it was first submitted rejected it on the ground that it was too difficult for his singers.

Raff then gave it to Liszt, with whom he was sojourning at Weimar, and who had taken pity on his "Konig Alfred"; but the tenor singer at the Weimar opera said the music was too high for the voice.