Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries
R. conceives the plan of setting down, following the rehearsals, his reflections on the institution of the Bayreuth Theatre; a letter to the princes and imperial authorities. Toward evening he ascends to the theatre. He returns downcast; there is absolutely no prospect that inns will be built. A Steinway arrives…
View moreR. sets out to see Wölffel, in order finally to obtain clarity regarding the inn matter. He does indeed obtain it — namely, that all will cost more than originally anticipated. – In the afternoon, examination of the two girls in arithmetic, during which R. remarks concerning the decimal system…
View moreAs the barometer is falling, we forgo our excursion, despite the fair sunrise and the household's persuasion. A triumph for science; the worst weather indeed arrives, met with great merriment. We think of Eckermann and Goethe. – Frau Wesendonck sends a poem on cremation, which leads us to Mephistopheles’ line:…
View moreGreat heat, R. not feeling well, gives up his course of the spring waters. No welcome news from any quarter; the patronages are not increasing, while on the other hand various demands are mounting — for example, Madame Materna demanding 30 gulden per day. Much nonsense among it all: a…
View moreR. is very unwell; the waters from the Marienbad spring affect him greatly. Miss Weckerlin comes to rehearse, which does nothing to ease his indisposition! — In the evening, he is unable to go to Bonin Künsberg's, where I spend a few hours. Traduzione in italiano di Claudia Bilotti [©…
View moreFidi's birthday! R. came to my chamber at four, though today the sunrise was but meagre; yet R. hears the bird. At midday, a toast; in the afternoon, an outing of the children to the Hermitage, the weather clears, Fidi’s sun breaks through. — “He shall be a Chevaux légers.”[1] —…
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