Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries

The first letter from the children at the Luisenstift; they seem content! … I travel to Prof. Österley,[1] who takes me to the museum, where there is a beautiful Miereveldt,[2] a fine Titian, a fine Rubens. At 2 o'clock, we depart for Braunschweig; R. is uncertain about Miss Weckerlin[3] (Sieglinde…

Letters; once again some household inconveniences! – Visits, including a singer from Bremen (Wilde), who seems quite capable. She sings the prayer from “Tannhäuser”, which, as always, moves and deeply touches me. At four o’clock, we are picked up for the banquet of the Artists’ Association, which goes pleasantly, though…

Left at half-past nine; fine weather. In Köthen, R. recalls that he once visited Nathalie[1] at the institution in the town of Herrenhuter with Minna; Gnadauer pretzels remind him of it. At four o’clock, I arrived in Hannover, where I write this. In the evening at 7 o’clock, a performance…

Left at 9:30. R. greeted me at the station, and fortunately, he looks very well, though he says that if I were to leave, he would fall ill. I saw and spoke with Sascha Ritter; his son will be coming to us. Claire Wolfram’s daughters are also arriving.  In the…

I went out early, bought a gift for Loldchen for tomorrow; then to the gallery, where I was profoundly moved by a “St. Sebastian” by Antonello da Messina[1] and a painting by Botticelli[2]. Moving reunion with other old friends. Breakfast at the Pusinellis', the good people! Pleasant atmosphere. At 2…

R. wakes up crying and lamenting, having dreamed that, after some misbehaviour on his part, I left him. He also dreamed of four-hand sonatas played by his father, and a lady who mocked him, to whom he responded by giving her "a cuff"; despite all her pleading, I was determined…