Visit from friend Feustel concerning the affair of the mason and especially the clause in the contract whereby from the 410th certificate of patronage onward all money coming in must be paid to the royal treasury; the concerts are also included; and money can only be requested for use on…
Gersdorff has sent me a splendid print taken from Moretto’s picture The Coronation of Mary in Brescia, one of the most moving creations that I know. I am very touched that friend Gersdorff should have thought of me when looking at this picture. R. goes for a walk with Fidi,…
Slept deeply and long; in the morning we complain at hearing no music! . . . R. works with great reluctance on his letter to Fritzsch about the Jessonda performance. I write some letters, the children play. In the evening R. reads to me from the preface of Gfrörer’s book…
In the morning I hear the Idyll, and after it the “Rose- und Kosenlied”[1]—R. and I in tears! Afterward I learn how R. arranged this whole secret. The orchestra from Hof was engaged, and he conducted the rehearsal yesterday in the Hotel Sonne. He tells me how well the children…
Working uninterruptedly on setting things up, which lasts from morning until 5 o’clock in the evening. The whole household along with the Nibelung Chancellery, 25 people in all, come through the salon into the hall, and all seem pleased and in good spirits. On my table lies the Götterdämmerung sketch!…
Set out early in the morning to hurry up the unpunctual people. — From noon on occupied with the tree, I tell R. that the motto for this Christmas is: “Nonsense, thou hast won!”[1] R. works on a letter about the performance of Jessonda [2]. Our four musicians come in…
