Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries

R. at his work, I at mine; at eleven he calls me down to show me how the sun is falling on my Lenbach portrait and transfiguring it! R. quotes from “The Knight of Toggenburg[i],” how the knight waits for the loved one to show herself.  He does not go…

I had alarming dreams during the early hours of the morning: I was wandering in the garden of the Luisenstift, and it seemed to me that all the schoolgirls were phantoms; Boni seemed to me to be especially melancholy; I woke up feeling very sad and with a heavy heart….

Poor Boni afflicted with a toothache. I work with Loldi. R. is busily engaged morning and afternoon with his score—he seems to have worked too much on it, for in the evening he is terribly agitated, which causes me concern. — (I pay a few calls.) — Wrote to Frau…

Elder children in church, younger playing around me, then received visitors while R. works. A walk in the afternoon with the children.  In the evening Herr Rubinstein gives us great pleasure by playing [Beethoven’s] Sonata Opus 111.[i]For the first movement he lacks the confidence and boldness of personality, but he…

R. has now had two better nights, thanks (it seems) to pepsin. He works; crosses out the page he wrote during the night. I worked with Lusch and Isolde.  In the afternoon a reception at Frau Raila’s, where I met the widow of the director of the Germanic Museum, a…

In the morning a discussion with R., who is quite unwilling to admit the need for caution in regard to our finances. In the morning worked a lot with Loldi (and finished a pair of leggings at the same time). In the afternoon German history and geography with Lusch, in…