Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries

Today Herr Brückwald! Herr Brandt could not stay any longer. Renewed meetings. At last letters from Munich: of the incoming patronage-certificates, three-fifths are claimed by the treasury, two-fifths may be retained; main news: free places. In the evening Herr Brückwald; he talks about the Construction Bank, of which he is…

In the forenoon visit from Brandt and the Brückners; the former much vexed at the negligence in the building works, the rain is let in, joiner’s mouldings have been forgotten—nothing but vexations! Added to this the Munich silence, and the tidings that we are likely not to be rid of…

Letter from dear Feustel, reporting a good occasion for the purchase of horses! … R. uneasy, no answer from Munich; he has requested that the payment of the patronage monies be remitted, and that it be permitted to take some from the credit for matters other than those fixed in…

The decision to go to Vienna is becoming increasingly difficult; the decoration [1] for the second act has arrived, a bookbinder’s and confectioner’s opus! Moreover, Herr Jauner offers Frau Wilt [2] (notorious for her monstrous figure) as Elisabeth: attempts to break away from Messrs. Voltz and Batz! Walk with R….

Cosmas and Damian! Anonymous letter from Berlin, speaking of Kinowsky’s misery [1], while the King [2], on the other hand, is said to be faring well! Thus punishment falls upon the better man. I write to nephew Jachmann, begging him to render the man assistance. R. has to receive the…

R. wholly restored; reads “Parzival”, and finds therein the play of elaboration which, from Virgil down to Byron, so distinguishes the modern epic from the ancient (Greek) one!—In the afternoon to the theatre; Herr Unger sings a little from Siegfried (the last scene); the voice soft and full, the diction…