Category: August 1875

Read “Parzival” aloud to Mimi; deep emotion. Lunch with friend Schuré; farewell to him; solitary evening, letter to Dr. Jauner. Traduzione in italiano di Claudia Bilotti [© Claudia Bilotti | WAGNER Salon] Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.

The children are ever at their lessons with their new governess, the granddaughter of Rector Baumgarten-Crusius, [1] whom R. had known at the Kreuzschule, and whose manner pleases me exceedingly. – at midday, Mr. Schuré and Mr. Lang of Boston; we visit the theatre with them! in the evening, Mr….

early in the morning I write to Richter with full heart, setting before him that his feeling toward me were of no concern, but that, unless he sincerely repents towards R. for having let himself be led astray by idle talk, he shall never again have anything to do with…

… a letter from Richter, so foolish and coarse that one wonders how such a thing could be; R. receives it, tells me nothing of it, but in the night he rises and writes; when I ask him, he tells me what the letter from Richter contained and that he…

Wrote to Marie Dönhoff and other letters as well, while the children are in church and R. is working. Received calls (estate owner Rohder and wife). In the afternoon finished Wallen stein with Lusch. In the evening a letter of 22 full sheets from an Austrian, who connects a new…

“You are my lotus flower,” R. says. “You are the palm tree and I the spruce,” he says to me early in the morning. He is feeling well and is able to work a bit. But unfortunately he has many interruptions.  Today the singer Schlosser has come here from Munich…