Category: October 1875

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…

Letter from Herr Unger: he is anxious, fearing breach of contract; R. writes him to set his mind at rest. We resolve to travel by way of Munich to Vienna, to confer on various matters with Hofrat Düfflipp. R. thinks it was mainly because of the local castles nearby for…