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The vexations of packing and preparations, together with news of the hapless Kinowskys! — — — In the evening, “Pandora”. [1] R. sorrowful at having to depart, for he would so gladly have used the winter for work. [1] A festival play by Goethe. Traduzione in italiano di Claudia Bilotti [©…

Took leave. Shortly thereafter a new visitor, a Professor Gosche [1] from Halle, who wishes to give a report upon the enterprise; a most agreeable man, recommended to us by Hermann Brockhaus. In the evening, happy at last to be once more alone together; we continue with Goethe’s Annals. — …

Dined at the Feustels’, then with Frau Wesendonck to Fantaisie — a beautiful autumnal mood. Music in the evening. Traduzione in italiano di Claudia Bilotti [© Claudia Bilotti | WAGNER Salon] Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.

Guided Frau W. through the city; luncheon with the Church Councillor, then to the Hermitage; in the evening Beethoven sonatas, the first and the last Heroide, the intermediate period (the Waldstein Sonata), which R. calls the period of attained mastery and success, though therein a certain coldness remains. Traduzione in…

Father’s birthday — Frau W. with us throughout the day; likewise the three Br.s of the theatre: Brandt, Brückwald, and Brückner. The pattern for the curtain was chosen, very beautiful! … Yet Brandt ever complaining that there is so much negligence in regard to the building. The rain comes through….

The King did not receive the address of the clericals, [1] thanked his ministry, and retained it. Great rejoicing about that; people even speak of making an illumination. In the evening, Madame Wesendonck arrived, and we received her at the railway station. [1] Introduced by Josef Edmund Jörg (1819-1901), Bavarian…