Category: January 1875

[January 1875] By inviting you to participate in the orchestra of my stage festival to be held in Bayreuth, I assume, as was conveyed to you through previous communications, that you are familiar with the conditions solely under which I may accept your participation. As you are aware, the formation…

[20th January 1875] In the course of the personal intercourse with you, which it has been my privilege to enjoy, you have learned of my wish to secure your participation in carrying into effect, under absolutely unique conditions, a three-fold performance of my four-part stage work entitled the “Ring of the…

R. wakes from a dreadful dream; I had once again left him after a quarrel and refused to return home, there was no place for me there, and in a hotel, he met me with my mother and wished to take me back home. My face and body were covered…

R. is unwell and must have leeches applied. The clumsy surgeon burns him with creosote, and he has a terrible day. Since he has not gone out for several days, he feels dejected, but the children cheer him up with their singing, and he himself joins in, singing the hymn…

R. is plagued by his cold and is beginning to have a tooth abscess. Visits, letters, reading Gfrörer in the evenings.  Decision to remove Schopenhauer from the wall "because he does not fit in with Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven; the philosopher must be solitary, he must translate into calm reflection everything…

Lusch chosen by our servant as godmother. Very bad weather. Visits. In the evening the F minor sonata, which R. performs with Rubinstein. Much to discuss with him. A Mr Hofmann asks about a tour with “Die Walküre” on the piano! …  Letter from Councilor Düfflipp, saying that the king…