Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries

Many things to catch up on, as always after visitors have been here. R. works. News of Tristan in Weimar, friend [Alwine] Frommann reports that the older people were in particular completely bewitched by it. Nice articles by Frau Merian in the Weimarische Zeitung. Great heat, we read nothing more…

Spoke a lot with Lenbach about a lot of things, discovered in him a noble, selfless, unusually talented person; R. is also coming to like him, about which I am glad. Departure at four o’clock, which does not come easily to any of the three of us. — Much with…

In dull weather accompanied the charming little Countess to the railroad station. Is anyone happy? Spent the rest of the day with Lenbach. My father writes that Hans has 150,000 francs set aside for the children. Visit of Herr v. Gersdorff to my father. Friend Feustel with us in the…

Fine morning, drive with our friends to the Fantaisie, at lunch the mayor and the dean. In the evening R. reads Parzival* to our two friends. Whether they appreciate it I do not know, but it again moves me unutterably.

First visitor in the morning; friend Lenbach; great joy at seeing him again. At one o’clock the little Countess*, friendly meeting. Lenbach delights us with his pleasure in Bayreuth, which he finds interesting. Drive to the Eremitage. Richter returns home on foot with the children, but sprains his ankle on…

Marvelous clear weather, yesterday R. pointed out to me the crescent moon with the evening star, that lovely celestial emblem. The marble slabs bearing the motto are affixed to our house, people in the street watching curiously. We receive reports about Tristan und Isolde in Weimar, a very nice one…