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R. is still not entirely well, he writes several business letters, reads Gfrörer, and looks through the accounts. In the evening, he dictates to me his circular to the singers. Draft of a circular to the singers a mixture of motivational and organizational letter in which Richard sets out the…

Arrival[1] of the portrait of Schopenhauer—a true marvel, what Lenbach has done! He once saw Sch. in Frankfurt without knowing who he was; when later shown a photograph of the great man, he recognised the face that had caught his attention, and now he has reproduced the very essence of…

R. is still unwell, scarcely able to do anything without breaking out in an intense sweat. The children are on the ice with me. —  Much thought as to whether I should send the eldest to school when I am away travelling. Wrote to Mathilde Maier. — Re-read a portion…

R. unwell, goes to bed around noon, he has caught a cold. — Yesterday evening we examined Tausig's transcriptions of “Tristan”, and we were astonished to find so little good in them. „Tristan und Isolde, Drei Paraphrasen von Carl Tausig“ The children on the ice before and after lunch. R….

In the morning, R. tells me about the strangely malicious traits he recently read in an autobiography of Felix Mendelssohn by Meinardus, how he had entertained himself and the other examiners with him by caricaturing the students performing before them, one of whom was deformed. —  Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus (1827-1896)…

A charming letter from Bon Augusz [1], containing a word from my father, who recounts that when Rubini was asked in Petersburg if he would sing at a concert of my father’s, he replied that he would even dance for Liszt, if he so desired, and thus, my father believes,…