Category: August 1875

The night and the morning were consumed with Herr Fürstner. R. suffers great vexation, and once again it proves how utterly incapable he is in matters of business—every contract leads to deception. In the afternoon appears, quite unexpectedly, Netty Mrazek [1], the former servant; she had not yet seen Fidi!…

All day in bed, meanwhile attending to the household accounts. In the afternoon a letter from Herr Jauner, reporting the unheard-of demand of the publisher Herr Fürstner, to receive royalties for the new scene of Tannhäuser in Vienna.[1] Great vexation on R.’s part at this; resolution never again to have…

The new chambermaid installed. Much reckoning and arranging. R. in more cheerful humour, recalls the Meistersinger and says he cannot comprehend whence he drew the mood for that geniality, though, indeed, he does comprehend it!—He once more expresses his aversion to lyric poetry; when I remind him that he did,…

Sedan celebration [1]—very wet! The children illumine their little chamber in the adjoining house, and delight us continually with their cheerfulness. Walk with R. up to the theatre; in the evening San Marte on “Parcival” [2]. R. arrives at the conviction that the formation of the Grail stood wholly apart from the…

Fair autumnal weather after a heavy thunderstorm. R. attends solely to correspondence, and I to friendship. On Monday the 30th, our excellent friends dine with us once more, and on Tuesday the 31st they depart, to our great sorrow. – In the afternoon, beneath gloomy skies, we walk with all…

R. drafts and completes his circular;[1] as is usual, I spend morning and afternoon with our friend [Marie von Schleinitz]. R. maintains a correspondence with Dresden, they desire “Tristan and Isolde”, he demands the royalties, they forgo them. In the evening our friends are with us. [1] Announcement of the 1876…