Friday, October 2 (2nd October 1874)

After writing some business letters (having noticed that copyright in melody has been forgotten in the new Reich law on authors’ rights in Germany), R. exclaims, “This is what we call progress—stumbling along in the wake of the French and the English.”

In the afternoon, visit from Herr Wesendonck, whom we take up to the theater. In the evening music, Strauss waltzes and the Idyll.