All day in bed, meanwhile attending to the household accounts. In the afternoon a letter from Herr Jauner, reporting the unheard-of demand of the publisher Herr Fürstner, to receive royalties for the new scene of Tannhäuser in Vienna.[1] Great vexation on R.’s part at this; resolution never again to have dealings with Jews; correspondence and telegrams in consequence thereof.
[1] Adolf Fürstner, as successor to C.F. Meser, held the publishing rights to the scores of “Rienzi”, “Holländer”, and “Tannhäuser”, but not the performance rights; the case was won by RW at the end of 1876.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.