Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries
After writing some business letters (having noticed that copyright in melody has been forgotten in the new Reich law on authors’ rights in Germany), R. exclaims, “This is what we call progress—stumbling along in the wake of the French and the English.” In the afternoon, visit from Herr Wesendonck, whom…
View moreStart of school for Boni. Worked with Lusch. R. finishes his letter of seven full sheets to the King; then starts again on his work. I have the task of writing to Herr Hoffmann and the brothers Brückner; it seems the latter do not wish to work with the former,…
View moreR. goes on writing, and I work with the children. A walk in the afternoon; the whole countryside completely parched. It is reported in the newspaper that the King is only waiting for the performances in Bayreuth before setting up a regency and going on a journey to India. Strangely…
View moreR. still on his letter; at lunch Prof. Schulze, Herr Mazière, manager of Schott’s, here to revise the agreement (not yet achieved), and our sgraffito artist. In the afternoon I have much correspondence to deal with, enthusiastic students, etc. In the evening music, Strauss waltzes, kindly sent to us from…
View moreR. has been writing to the King for several days, his letter grows and grows, at the King’s wish he is writing a complete report on our undertaking, also on our life here. — I work with the children. In the afternoon R. tells me that he knows why it…
View moreR. again dreamed that I left him—he declares that the expression on my face when I said “The moon is my friend” had made him jealous and caused the dream, in which I stole away from him in fine clothes, only to be with him again, dressed in a gray…
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